Project

Census Experiments
Interactive visualizations dealing with Census data, Census data structures, and other Census outputs.

A pair of Census tracts that are similar by 1 definition but different by others

The Social Vulnerability Index for New York City

Census hierarchy diagram made interactive with population data

Satellite images of Census tracts sorted by different vulnerability metrics

These experiments deal with how Census data is structured, packaged, and how it can be visualized interactively. Some address how these data points exist in the Census ecosystem, while others are technical opportunities and solutions.

All code is always open to use, and open to accepting requests and changes.

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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 (CSR), where she leads multiple ongoing collaborative research projects ranging from mapping migration across African cities, the underfunding of poultry farms across the US, and the effects of liens and mortgages in the bail industry. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at GSAPP in the MArch program. Prior to joining CSR, She has worked in architecture firms in Toronto, New York, and London.