Project

Asian American Dot Density Map
A one to one dot density map that color codes Asian Americans as the 23 groups identified by the American Community Survey

Houston, Texas

Austin, Texas

St Louis, Missouri

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Portland, Oregon

The 2019 American Community Survey estimates that there are 22.19 million persons living in the United States who self-identify as asian in answer to the Census race question. Asian Americans are highly visible on national maps, but almost always as an uniform group represented by 1 color. The Asian American Dot Density map represents each Asian American as 1 dot color coded by 21 different racial groups found in Census data. The map reveals the complex spatial dynamics of specific asian racial groups in places across the country.

I will update this project with 2020 data as it becomes available.

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Project Team

Name	Project Role
Jia Zhang	Project Lead
Contact Jia Zhang Jia Zhang is a Mellon Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University's Center for Spatial Research. She experiments with communicating quantitative and qualitative data visually. Her research examines and utilizes technical processes and abstract visual forms found in data representation. At the CSR, Jia works on visualizations of public urban datasets and the U.S. Census.
Adeline Chum	Graduate Research Assistant
Contact Adeline Chum Adeline Chum is Assistant Director of the Center for Spatial Research. She has worked in architecture firms in both Toronto, New York, and London prior to joining the lab. In her current work, she is interested in land use productivity and is critical of the relationship between forest land, wildlife reserves, sites of extraction and infrastructure.