The Social Explorer is a navigable map visualization of U.S. Census data which tells some fascinating stories about population and geography over time. Nathan Torkington at the O'Reilly Radar weblog ...

The GCensus web utility lets you download and overlay census information on top of Google Earth maps. Just choose your data source (GCensus only maps population characteristics like race and age, but ...

The US Census Bureau is adopting the latest data processing technology to help with its upcoming 2020 Census, including the use of a large Hadoop cluster, real-time stream data processing, and ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Census Bureau today released the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File to states and the public in an easier-to-use format. These data ...

Census data is often seen at a large scale — atlases, research studies and interactive visualizations all offer the view from 10,000 feet. But there are people inside those top-line numbers. And when ...

The author of gCensus, Imran Haque, is a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University. He contacted me back in late February that he had released a subset of three states of many kinds of ...

SHREVEPORT – In a season of giving, LSUS’s Center for Business and Economic Research unwrapped a valuable tool that drills down into vast amounts of census data to produce a neighborhood-level view of ...

Note: Based on the reader response to this article, Denvir penned a follow-up, “Five myths about the 10 most segregated metro areas.” You can find that piece here. Decades after the end of Jim Crow, ...

Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was very impressed with this ...