An Extraordinary ’Synthetic’ Map of Every Household in America - Emily Badger - The Atlantic Cities
▻http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/extraordinary-synthetic-map-every-household-america/7375
We want to actually represent every household as a dot on a map, and as a record in a database," Wheaton says. “Instead of having a record for the block group that says how many different kinds of households there are in there, we have a record for every household.”
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In effect, each dot isn’t an actual household, but it represents one as closely as possible.
