dot maps – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 06 May 2022 16:49:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg dot maps – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 One Racial Dot Map Closes, Several New Ones Appear https://www.maproomblog.com/2022/05/one-racial-dot-map-closes-several-new-ones-appear/ Thu, 05 May 2022 19:16:36 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1807200 More]]> Maps Mania reported last month that the University of Virginia’s Racial Dot Map has been taken offline. The proximate causes: the 2020 census, which rendered the map obsolete (it was based on 2010) data; the increased complexity of the 2020 census’s racial data (more people IDing as multiracial or other); and insufficient resources to bring the map up to date given that complexity. But Maps Mania points to a number of new racial dot maps, such as CNN’s and Ben Schmidt’s All of US, which operate despite the caveats identified by UVa; plus see the following previous posts: Census Mapper: An Interactive Map of U.S. Population Changes; Mapping Racial Population Shifts in the United States.

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Maarten Lambrechts

Maarten Lambrechts discusses how to make a dot density population map, in technical detail. He uses QGIS to process data for his home country of Belgium. The map above is one result (he also zoomed in on Brussels).

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