From the monthly archives:

August 2007

United States “Cost of Home Ownership as % of Income” Map

by Catherine on August 30, 2007

Here I have mapped the cost of owning a home as % of household income (taken from the 2000 Census). This is calculated by dividing the median cost of owning a home by the household income for a given area. If you would like to see a more detailed version go to Social Explorer and choose “Housing” from the second drop down then “Median Owner Costs: % of Income” and select the magnifying glass to zoom in on a specific county.

{Click on the image to take a closer look}

[tags]income distribution, income map, housing market, housing cost[/tags]

Tagged as: Choropleth Map, CIA, Housing, United States, US Census

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Highest Paid Hip-Hop Artists 2006

by Catherine on August 20, 2007

in Income by Occupation, Incomes of the Super Rich

Forbes has introduced a new ranking this year for Hip-Hop Cash Kings. I assume this means their Highest Paid Celebrities list is very popular since they are branching out into other subgenera. So what make someone a Hip-Hop Cash King? Sources of income include: running their own record labels; producing tracks and beats for other artists; endorsement deals; selling apparel, ringtones, video games and a line of fiction.

I added the graph to my Income and Wealth Swivel group.

[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, US income inequality, income inequality, Hip-Hop[/tags]

Tagged as: Bar Chart, BEA, Celebrities, Forbes, Income - Individual, Video

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Visualizing Economics goes down, again

by Catherine on August 14, 2007

in Uncategorized

Technical difficulties due to a glitch at my ISP meant my blog was not available for the last 3 days. Hopefully, your access to tasty income data visualizations will not be interrupted again :)
FYI, in case you missed Saturday’s post take a look at the United States Poverty Map

Tagged as: Blog, United States

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United States Poverty Map

by Catherine on August 11, 2007

in Other

Another income map, this time plotting the % of people living in poverty based on the 2000 Census. If you would like to see a more detailed version go to Social Explorer and choose “Poverty” from the second drop down, then select the magnifying glass to zoom in on a specific county.

{Click on the image to take a closer look}

Addendum:
8/19/2007 I added Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico to the map.
[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, inequality, income inequality, income map, poverty[/tags]

Tagged as: Choropleth Map, CIA, Income - Low, United States, US Census

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United States Household Income Map

by Catherine on August 7, 2007

in Other

Based on some comments on the United States Income Inequality Map, I am posting another United States Income Map, this time showing the Median Household income in the US by Census tract. I created it using a very cool tool: Social Explorer.

{Click on the image to take a closer look}

Addendum:
8/8/2007 Increased the size of the map legend.
8/19/2007 I added Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico to the map.
[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, inequality, income inequality[/tags]

Tagged as: Choropleth Map, CIA, Distribution of Income, United States, US Census

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Visualizing Economics goes down

by Catherine on August 6, 2007

in Uncategorized

My blog went down this weekend due to a very large spike in visitors from a link on Reddit’s home page. While this site has received links from Reddit in the past, it was a jump of 13,000 visitor on Saturday that cause my ISP to temporarily bring the site down and move it to another server. Most the site is working again except for the Contact Us page.
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