Data link roundup (week of January 25, 2013)

The week's top data analysis links...

VISUALIZING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES

By analyzing and mapping the end point locations of telephone calls, SENSEable City Lab identified closely connected communities within Great Britain and the United States. Some patterns that emerge:

• Residents of the New York metro area do not have terribly strong connections with residents upstate
• There is a Mason-Dixon-like line separating southern and northern California
• Northwest Florida is much more closely connected with Alabama and Georgia than with the rest of Florida

Source: Xiaoji Chen's design blog

EQUALITY AND JUSTICE

For those who focus on issues of environmental justice and social equity, Schweitzer's piece on equality and justice is thought-provoking. The post is not about not data, per-se, but understanding the distinction between equality and justice can be crucial when developing appropriate measurements (for example) for Title VI analysis.


BEST CHART OF THE WEEK

These histograms, by Bill Rankin, showing population by latitude and longitude are excellent data visualizations: clever and informative:

Source: Bill Rankin's Radical Cartography