data viz and the face of segregation

Check out this interesting post on mapping America from Remapping Debate, an online public policy journal. They've teamed with Social Explorer (a data visualization database) to create maps using data from the recently released 2005-2009 American Community Survey.

Here is the face of Greensboro:


At UNCG we have access to another mapping database called SimplyMap that does similar mapping. These are great tools for visualizing your community!