Maps
Weave it!
Neighborhood Nexus is a member of the Open Indicators Consortium.The Consortium members include
local, state, and regional organizations from Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, New Haven, Phoenix, and Providence. The consortium is developing an entirely new way to visualize and interact with data through software called Weave.
Weave analyzes and visualizes economic, social, and environmental indicators at the neighborhood, municipal, county and regional levels. The interface integrates maps, charts, and tables on one website, transforming the way that both novices and advanced users look at data. We have created a couple of "instances" on this site, so please give it a test run, and tell us what you think about it.
Here is a quick "how-to" guide (PDF) for using Weave.
Weave: Employment Data (OnTheMap)
Weave: Everything! (Play around with this one, because it includes roughly 300 variables that you can "weave" together to finds all sorts of interesting patterns and trends. Tell us your story!)
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!
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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). |