Maps
Visualize Data Using Weave
Neighborhood Nexus is a member of the Open Indicators Consortium, which has developed an open-source mapping and visualization platform called Weave. Here is a quick "how-to" guide (PDF) for using Neighborhood Nexus' interactive map.
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More than 600 variables from nine different sources. Use this site to explore neighborhood level trends. |
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More than 200 variables from the U.S. Census Bureau. Use this site to explore socioeconomic and demographic data by legislative district. |
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About 100 variables from the GA Department of Education. Use this site to explore student achievement, socioeconomic and demographic data by Elementary and Middle School. |
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Mapping Assets Using Google"Asset mapping" provides another way to spatially understand our environment by putting service providers "on the map". Using this, you can determine if there are sufficient services that are covering your area of interest. Caution is urged, however. As soon as an "asset" map goes live, it is out of date, because places open, close and relocate all the time. |
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In a partnership with the United Way of Greater Atlanta, almost 1,300 service providers are mapped from United Way's 2-1-1 database. The list has five issue areas: Basic Needs, Education, Health, Homelessness and Income. |
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Below are some examples of maps you can make with Weave. We made these maps, but are very interested in some of the maps you create. Please email us your creations, along with a one-to-two sentence story about it, and we'll post it and give you credit for it! Or go to Neighborhood Corner and leave your story there.
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This map shows total population change between 2000 and 2010. As can be seen, there is a "doughnut" where depopulation occurred - these areas are the first-ring suburbs that are now being abandoned for either the urban core or the second-ring suburbs and exurbs. |
This map shows how the foreclosure crisis is disproportionately effecting the Hispanic population, particularly the cluster of Hispanics in Gwinnett. This map was created by selecting those areas on the scatter plot with the highest foreclosure rate (everything above the line). The map displayed the percent of Hispanics, thus by selecting only those areas with high foreclosure rates in the scatter plot, we can isolate the areas with both high foreclosure rate and high Hispanic concentration. |
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This map shows the relationship between single-parent households and education. On the scatter plot, only those areas with high percentage of single-parent households and those with no high school diploma are selected. As can be seen, neighborhoods in Atlanta and Clayton have an abundance of both conditions. |
This map shows the distribution of housing wealth, here measured by assessed property value data from LexisNexis. As can be seen, there is a clear spatial pattern that sees the highest assessed values in the northern spans of the region (and in Fayette County in the south). |