Trulia Maps Cover Everything from Demographics to Crime to Home Values

Trulia is basically a real estate website but it also has an incredible amount of tools available that would be useful perhaps for grant writing and even program development.These tools can be found for any place/zip code you insert into their search engine. Here's a screen shot below on age demographics for the a census tract in south Utica.  Click on it to enlarge it.

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You can basically check out any tract by clicking it. Note that the bar at the top of the map allows you to bring up data on any number of topics and subtopics.

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So click on this link to the trulia mapping page and see how your neighborhood or town stacks up !

How We Travel to Work: An Interactive Map

A couple days ago I posted about an interactive map from Flowingdata.com that showed the times we left for work. They also have one on the mode of transportation we used to get to work. Below is a screen shot of Herkimer County's data. Click on it to enlarge it.

Note that the colored boxes near the top of the map break out this modes into vehicle based modes and non-vehicle based modes. By clicking the boxes (on the actual interactive map) you can toggle each mode on or off...or turn them ALL off but one to see how a county compares to the rest of the state.

So visit this mode of transportation to work interactive map and check out the info for your area !

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Popular Running and Biking Routes Based on App Tracking

The use of apps to track your movements, especially when exercising is exploding with the use of smart phones and body-wearable technology. Below is an example of how that technology can be used to show popular running and biking routes. Strava, a company that provides such an app, creates maps by (1) taking all of the routes reported through their app, then (2) stripping all the personal information from the data, and finally (3) provide the data to DOTs and interested groups to perform detailed analysis and glean insights into the running and biking patterns of it's patrons.

Below is a map of the Valley area (Ilion-Mohawk-Herkimer) showing the running routes popular in the area. Visit the Strava website and see what the biking routes entail, or go to your area to see popular routes!

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Interactive Map on Time Leaving for Work

The website Flowingdata.com offers the an interactive version of the map below which shows when people leave home for work. The rates are for people who have jobs and are 16 years or older. The data does not include people who work from home. Take a look at how the flow changes by varying the time bar at the top of the map!

Here's what Oneida County looks like between 7:30 and 7:59 on any given workday ! Click on the map to enlarge it.

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County Level Health Metrics

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has provided US County Profiles for every county in the United States. These profiles analyze the performance of all 3,143 US counties or county-equivalents in terms of alcohol use, life expectancy at birth, smoking prevalence, obesity, physical activity, and poverty using novel small area estimation techniques and the most up-to-date county-level information.

Below are summaries of the Herkimer and Oneida Counties data as well as links to their full profiles:

To see the full profiles, click on the county name below:

HERKIMER COUNTY

 

ONEIDA COUNTY

Overviews of both counties...

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