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This is not a surprise, but here's an animation I just made based on the NY Times website based on the US census racial plurality:
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Great animation!
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yes, Cool animation.
While there are a lot of changes in PH, I couldn't help but look at the geographic area that the Orthodox Jewish folks live in over in CH. It has really grown over the last 10 years.
For better or worse, the change on Nostrand is going to make the change on Franklin look minor. -
I think in order to be an "animation" it needs to have more than two frames
you might as well have put them side by side, having it flash rapidly like that just makes it harder to read.
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Okay, I just slowed down the animation a bit.
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Very cool -- the influx of the Orthodox Jewish population and the Pratt students was very interesting as well.
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Cool! It's fascinating to see the way the projects in Red Hook (and Boerum Hill, to a lesser extent) went from black enclaves in Hispanic areas to Hispanic enclaves in white areas. I wouldn't have suspected that particular trend.
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Great poat! The animation was incredibly!
Is this there anyway to have data from 1990, 2000 & 2010 show?
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Very, very interesting! Some changes I would not have expected, such as Dixiecup's observations about the housing projects. The growth of the Orthodox Jewish community in Crown Heights is pretty incredible for just 10 years.
What do the gradations in color designate as far as percentage differences?
It would be very interesting to see a 1990 slide added to this animation (although realizing that the data from that census might be harder to digitize.)
Thanks for sharing!
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Nice one raulism - I'd love to see 1990 added on as well.
Of course, reflecting the *plurality* doesn't tell the whole story. My block in Park Slope is White/Latin/Black/Asian mixed (in that order) - in 1990 I think that would have been White/Black/Latin/Asian. Still, we're white on the map. So a place that is closer to 50/50 reads the same as a place that almost entirely white or black or latin...
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BKChickie said:It would be very interesting to see a 1990 slide added to this animation (although realizing that the data from that census might be harder to digitize.)
I just got the link to the 1970 statistics:
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/1970.htmlI couldn't find any details about each census tract. But the trend from 1960 to 1970 is that the white population went down in Brooklyn, and the black (as it was called then) went up. The total Brooklyn population fell 2.63 million to 2.60 million in the decade.
Here are the 1990 NY statistics:
http://www.census.gov/prod/1/90dec/cph4/tables/cph4tb34/cph4tb34.htm -
http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/maps/home.aspx
This has what you are looking for.
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raulism said:
I just got the link to the 1970 statistics:
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/1970.htmlFascinating! Thank you. The information is sorted by congressional districts, and since those have changed since 1970, it's hard to compare apples to apples, but for example, I was able to infer that one district that was then in Harlem, but subsequent redistricting puts that number in Westchester today, 20 percent of its population between 1960 and 1970. That's remarkable!
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