Social Science Data Analysis Network

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This week's SSDAN Data Visualization, created by Xuewei Chen, shows the percentage change of county's vacant housing units from 2014-2015

[npr]

What do Democrats in West Virginia and Republicans in California have in common? Many likely knew that their presidential election votes wouldn’t “count.”

Of course, these votes were counted, but anyone with a minimal knowledge of U.S. politics could have guessed that California would vote Democratic in the presidential election (Clinton won it by 29 points) and that West Virginia would go Republican (Trump won by nearly 42 points).

And because of the United States’ peculiar electoral college system, in which the winner takes all the electoral votes in all but two states, all the California Trump votes and West Virginia Clinton votes didn’t really matter much. So voters in those states might have reasonably shrugged and stayed home on Election Day.

The data suggest this may be happening. Of 15 states that NPR labeled as battlegrounds or leaning states in its final battleground map, 12 had turnout rates above the national rate — 58.4 percent of the voting-eligible population.

Is The Electoral College Dragging Down Voter Turnout In Your State?

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Flight patterns the day before Thanksgiving

[washingtonpost]

This is how long you have to vote. 

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Tomorrow is the day! 

[mfratto]

US Population Density displayed on a map. Very cool visualization.

Source: https://i.imgur.com/bQ3ANSb.png

[umssdan]

Here's Facebook's 2015 MLB Fandom Map

It's that time of year again: time to nod our heads at the fact that baseball fandom is largely geographic, unless you're a goddamned Yankees fan.

Where do Cubs fans live? Cleveland baseball fans? 

[mapsontheweb]

US presidential election results by county, 2004, Bush vs. Kerry.

Keep reading

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#tbt

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Here’s Where You’re Allowed to Take a Selfie While Voting “It depends on where you vote”

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Muslim Population in India by Economist #map #islam #india via [Pinterest pinned to the Nordpil Interesting Maps Pinterest Board]

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Think your resume’s looking a little skeletal this fall? The @careercenter has some tips for building a strong resume! –> http://bit.ly/2eYinm6

[umssdan]

This week's SSDAN Data Visualization, created by Xuewei Chen, shows the percentage of each state's Asian population identifying as Vietnamese. Louisiana has the largest percentage at over 30%. Check out the Pew Research Center's article on Vietnamese Americans: http://pewrsr.ch/2erAvXr

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Why Tomorrow’s Diverse America Is Good News for Business and Innovation

The shift began in 2011, when more minority babies than whites were born in the U.S.

Demographer William H. Frey is convinced that if we can just get our acts together when it comes to race, America will thrive.

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Ain't No Rest for the Indebted Student

SSDAN’s Anna Graff takes a look at changes in tuition across the country and intergovernmental investment.

Although the data below exhibits differences between states, it is easy to spot a national trend for decreased state funding and the tuition hikes for all public universities. Only three states have increased funding according to the data: North Dakota, Wyoming, and Alaska. Increased state funding in these territories, places with few public universities, is far from a large investment on the part of those states.

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"The organizations in Detroit are budgeting a number that is a little stronger than the national average," said Frank Belmonte, compensation practice leader for Aon Hewitt's Midwest region. "I think employers are feeling a little bit more confident about the economy in Detroit."

[npr]

The grass is greener … if you’re a student in Detroit, looking across your school district’s boundary with the neighboring Grosse Pointe public schools.

Nearly half of Detroit’s students live in poverty; that means a family of four lives on roughly $24,000 a year — or less.

In Grosse Pointe, a narrow stretch of real estate nestled between Detroit and Lake St. Clair, just 7 percent of students live at or below the poverty line.

To recap, that’s 49 percent vs. 7 percent. Neighbors.

Which is why a new report from the nonprofit EdBuild ranks the Detroit-Grosse Pointe boundary as “the most segregating school district border in the country.”

The report, called Fault Lines, doesn’t stop there.

“What we did is built an algorithm that identified all 33,500 school district borders in the country … and compared their school-aged child poverty rates,” says Rebecca Sibilia, the founder and CEO of EdBuild.

From this comparison Sibilia’s team compiled a list of the 50 most segregating school boundaries in the nation — in short, the district borders with the largest difference in child poverty rates from one side to the other. In this case, “segregating” is being used to talk specifically about class, not race, though the two often overlap, especially in America’s large, urban school systems.

The 50 Most Segregating School Borders In America

Images: Gustav Dejert/Getty Images and NPR

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The Obama administration’s proposed overtime rules would make nearly 5 million white-collar workers newly eligible for time-and-a-half, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. Most of them, we estimate, would be retail and food service managers, office administrators, low-level financial workers and other modestly paid managers and office professionals.

MORE: Proposal could make nearly 5 million workers newly eligible for overtime

[umssdan]

The Obama administration’s proposed overtime rules would make nearly 5 million white-collar workers newly eligible for time-and-a-half, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. Most of them, we estimate, would be retail and food service managers, office administrators, low-level financial workers and other modestly paid managers and office professionals.

MORE: Proposal could make nearly 5 million workers newly eligible for overtime