{"id":1807200,"date":"2022-05-05T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T19:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1807200"},"modified":"2022-05-06T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:49:07","slug":"one-racial-dot-map-closes-several-new-ones-appear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/05\/one-racial-dot-map-closes-several-new-ones-appear\/","title":{"rendered":"One Racial Dot Map Closes, Several New Ones Appear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maps Mania reported<\/a> last month that the University of Virginia\u2019s Racial Dot Map<\/a> has been taken offline. The proximate causes: the 2020 census, which rendered the map obsolete (it was based on 2010) data; the increased complexity of the 2020 census\u2019s racial data (more people IDing as multiracial or other); and insufficient resources to bring the map up to date given that complexity. But Maps Mania points to a number of new racial dot maps, such as CNN\u2019s<\/a> and Ben Schmidt\u2019s All of US<\/a>, which operate despite the caveats identified by UVa<\/abbr>; plus see the following previous posts: Census Mapper: An Interactive Map of U.S. Population Changes<\/a>; Mapping Racial Population Shifts in the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maps Mania reported last month that the University of Virginia\u2019s Racial Dot Map has been taken offline. The proximate causes: the 2020 census, which rendered the map obsolete (it was based on 2010) data; the… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[363],"tags":[769,170,1166,1529,502,158],"class_list":["post-1807200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-human-geography","tag-census","tag-demographics","tag-dot-maps","tag-ethnicity","tag-race","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1805466,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/11\/census-mapper-an-interactive-map-of-u-s-population-changes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1807200,"position":0},"title":"Census Mapper: An Interactive Map of U.S. Population Changes","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 November 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Census Mapper maps the change in the U.S. population revealed by the 2020 census: the interactive map takes a county-by-county look at population growth (or decline) of the various ethnic\/racial groups. 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