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February 10, 2013

Mapping the census…

Filed under: Census Data,Mapping,Maps,R,Transparency — Patrick Durusau @ 4:20 pm

Mapping the census: how one man produced a library for all by Simon Rogers.

From the post:

The census is an amazing resource – so full of data it’s hard to know where to begin. And increasingly where to begin is by putting together web-based interactives – like this one on language and this on transport patterns that we produced this month.

But one academic is taking everything back to basics – using some pretty sophisticated techniques. Alex Singleton, a lecturer in geographic information science (GIS) at Liverpool University has used R to create the open atlas project.

Singleton has basically produced a detailed mapping report – as a PDF and vectored images – on every one of the local authorities of England & Wales. He automated the process and has provided the code for readers to correct and do something with. In each report there are 391 pages, each with a map. That means, for the 354 local authorities in England & Wales, he has produced 127,466 maps.

Check out Simon’s post to see why Singleton has undertaken such a task.

Question: Was the 2011 census more “transparent,” or “useful” after Singleton’s work or before?

I would say more “transparent” after Singleton’s work.

You?

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