Saturday, November 26, 2011

Making Sense of Census-less Data

I have always found that supplemental 3D visualizations help provide better insights on census data. While playing with the compiled data from the 2000 census, from cityofchicago.org, I found an interesting anomaly.


After some investigation, I found the red spike represents 15 families with a median income of $255,000. Was there mischief afoot by those 15 families?

I'll let the more curious readers decide. Attached here is the census data and a Mathematica notebook. The notebook has been generalized to allow users to create 3D visualizations of all provided census data.

Download here

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