Mapping America's Segregated Cities

Jim Vallandingham has created a expose of force-directed maps to powerfully visualize segregation inwards United States of America cities. In each of the maps the virtually segregated neighborhoods are animated every bit they force away from other neighborhoods, based on the differences inwards proportion of the white in addition to dark populations inwards each neighborhood census tract.

Visualizing The Racial Divide includes maps for thirteen American cities, including St Louis, Chicago in addition to Baltimore. Select the push for 1 of the urban meat maps in addition to the areas amongst the virtually segregated populations force away from the neighboring areas, patch areas of homogeneity remain largely static. As the virtually segregated neighborhoods movement farther away from the less segregated areas spaces seem on the map where at that spot is a pregnant alter inwards the racial makeup betwixt neighboring census tracts. The infinite is proportional to the alter inwards racial composition betwixt neighborhoods.

The information is based on the 2010 census in addition to the visualization was created using d3.js