Bracketology
Even if you don’t follow NCAA men’s basketball, you’re probably aware that the 2013 NCAA Tourney is upon us. The first round games start tonight, so if you’re planning on filling out a bracket this year, I hope you’ve gotten…
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Same old story… U.S. is getting older and more diverse
This is my third and final blog post about the Census Bureau’s special report on Patterns of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Population Change: 2000 to 2010. My first two posts covered information from the first three chapters of the report – the…
How close are we, really? Population densities in U.S. Cities
In a previous blog post I talked about a new report from the Census Bureau on patterns of population change in U.S. metropolitan and micropolitan areas from 2000 to 2010. My previous post covered Chapters 1 and 2 of the report,…
U.S. residents love a metropolis
The Census Bureau came out with a new special report in September about the patterns of population change in U.S. metropolitan and micropolitan areas from 2000 to 2010. The report is chock-full of data about the most populated areas of…
Protein Folding and the Census Challenge
Dustin was the first to tell me the story of how online gamers, in just 3 weeks, decoded an AIDS protein that had stumped scientific researchers for 15 years. The story is that researchers at the Center for Game Science at the…
The U.S. Didn’t Win the Olympics After All
One thing we heard a lot throughout the Olympics coverage was the medal count. At the end of every day, NBC would flash up its graphic and Bob Costas would tell us that the U.S. or China was in the…
Food Deserts in Virginia
A relatively new term has come about in the last decade’s discussions about the obesity crisis in America – food deserts. These are areas of the country where residents have limited access to supermarkets or grocery stores. Many believe that…
Health and Age in Virginia’s Localities
Earlier today our office released my latest Stat Chat publication, Virginia’s Health Rankings. The publication presents data from the America’s Health Rankings and County Health Rankings & Roadmaps projects. These data sources include annually updated health rankings of the 50…
Historic Mexican Immigration Wave Comes to a Standstill
The Pew Hispanic Center recently released a report about Mexican immigration to the United States. The report showed that net migration from Mexico has fallen to zero. Here are some interesting facts that the researchers found using demographic data from…
An interesting visualization of gay rights in the United States, by state and region
The vote on the proposed Amendment One in North Carolina, which defines marriage in the NC state constitution as between one man and one woman, and bans any other type of domestic legal union, such as civil unions and domestic…