Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data

Posted by whocansay on Monday June 22, 2015 @02:40AM
from the flowingdata.com dept.

http://flowingdata.com/2015/06/16/reviving-the-statistical-atlas-of-the-united-states-with-new-data

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Re:Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with ... by mickdj on Monday June 22, 2015 @04:11AM (#9756877)

"ANCESTRY. I don't totally understand this variable. It's a fill-in-the-blank question on the American Community Survey, but there weren't any Asian categories."

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Re:Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with ... by paulornothing on Monday June 22, 2015 @08:01PM (#9761925)

It's been a while since I've looked at the paper form but there should be categories, and an other category that is fill in the blank.

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Re:Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with ... by paulornothing on Monday June 22, 2015 @08:08PM (#9761948)

A lot of data users always looked forward to the Statistical Abstract (myself included). I hope we can revive it perhaps in a purely digital format (i know the books/CDs were expensive). We've released some apps so hopefully we can do something like the statistical abstract.

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