Interactive Map of Job-Housing information in Indiana. Housing data is the ACS estimated houing stock as of 2022, and the jobs data is from Q4 2023. jobs per housing unit – 2024
Category: Data
HS Attendance Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Below, are some interactive plots for a project I worked on. They show the changes in HS GPA and Attendance after the COVID-19 pandemc for three high schools:
COVID-19 Vaccination Race
Check out this horse race Viz for state-by-state vaccination rates
Remember Essential Workers?
Happy Labor Day, everyone! We shouldn’t forget about essential workers. A few months ago, I wrote a post about how we don’t pay essential workers enough. At the time, it was a big topic. Essential workers were some of the only folks who had to actually show up to a physical location (ie: not their…
A Jobs-Housing Map for the Midwest Partnership
In light of regions of the country becoming mini-nation-states including a pact of Midwestern States and in an effort to get some more data, I put together this map, which shows the jobs-housing mismatch for the five states that are definitely part of the midwest, the former Northwest Territories:
Essential Workers Aren’t Paid Like They Are Essential
If they’re essential, shouldn’t they earn more? I went to the grocery store the other day to stock up. Trying to avoid social contact as much as possible, I went very early on Saturday morning, when normally the store would be empty. I was surprised to find that the store was packed with shoppers, some…
We Should have More State Legislators
Well, at least I’m pretty sure we should. 2020 is another census year, which means there will be some electoral shakeups around the country as fast-growing states gain members of Congress and slower-growing/declining states lose representatives. For almost 100 years now, we’ve had this fixed-pie system at the national level, where states could lose seats…
Ohio’s Housing Crisis
Ratios of Housing to Jobs in parts of Ohio are as bad as the San Francisco Bay Area Columbus homeowners have been celebrating news that their home values have skyrocketed in that last few years. The Columbus Dispatch in particular has been praising the local market, saying that homeowners are “sitting on a gold mine”…
Happy Holidays – Check out this Ohio Cities Population Race
Howdy and Happy Holidays! I’m not putting up a post this week, instead, check out this population bar chart race I made. Enjoy!
2020 Ohio Elections: The 2016 and 2018 Ohio Senate races
Welcome to part 2 of my little exploration of 2020 Ohio Elections. If you’re looking for part 1, which covers Ohio House races, you can find it here. Today, we’ll dig into Ohio’s 2016 and 2018 Senate races, and explore whether democrats will be able to win some seats in the upcoming 2020 races. The…