It’s summer and the mosquitos are biting. The following visualization displays all reported cases of West Nile Virus in California by county from 2006 to present. Data Source: California Department of Health & Humana Services — https://chhs.data.ca.gov/
MOTD: 071216 Austin, TX Fatalities 2015
We created this visualization using data from the Austin (TX) Police Department‘s website. The APD maintains a database of motor vehicle, bicycle, motorcycle and pedestrian fatalities. This data covers the period from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2015. We used FactLook‘s geocoding feature to place pins on the map indicating one of four types of […]
MOTD: 071116 – Craft Vodka Distilleries by State
FactLook was hired to produce a visualization displaying the concentration of craft distilleries across the US with a focus on those distilleries producing vodka. We found the data we needed at the American Distilling Institute. The ADI’s database had listings for 158 unique distilleries with vodka products. The state with the largest number of craft […]
MOTD: 070816 – Living Large in AZ
We turned to American Fact Finder to see how many palatial estates there are in Arizona. So we pulled stats on homes with more than 8 bedrooms as a percentage of all homes in each county in AZ. We then pulled data on the top residential real estate brokers in Arizona. All ten were in […]
Map of the Day: 070716 – Native Americans on Death Row
FactLook.com was recently hired to produce a thematic map showing which of the US states had individuals on death row who claim Native American as their race. We found the data needed to build the map at DeathPenaltyInfo.org. The largest number of Native Americans on death row were incarcerated in California, which has the largest […]
Map of the Day: 070516 – High School Tennis Participation by State
On this day in 1975, Arthur Ashe defeated Jimmy Connors to become the first African American tennis player to win Wimbledon. Connors was heavily favored but fell to Ashe’s strategy of only giving Connors “junk” to hit. Ashe won the match 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4. FactLook was curious to see which state might produce the […]
Map of the Day: 070116 – Reported Fireworks Injuries, Washington, Counties (2015)
Independence Day can turn into a very bad day for those who are injured by fireworks. We looked at Washington to get an idea of the number of reported fireworks injuries: the state’s fire marshall maintains an annually updated database of incidents reported by the state’s EMS and hospitals. As would be expected, the largest concentration […]