It’s well known that the US honey bee population is seriously stressed. The US Department of Agriculture keeps track of these important pollinators and produces a quarterly report on the health of the bee population via its National Agriculture Statistics Service. We took data from the NASS report to visualize the percentage of colonies lost for […]
MOTD: 091516 Miami-Dade County Contaminated Sites and Population
The Miami-Dade County OpenData portal has a dataset on contaminated sites — nearly 2,500 of them — across the county. We used FactLook’s latitude and longitude geocoding feature to plot those sites. We then pulled population data for Miami-Dade from the US Census Bureau. The resulting data viz is below. Want to build a data […]
MOTD: 091416 DC Crime Stats 2015 (Assault with Deadly Weapon & Homicide)
While politicians like to think theirs is the roughest game in the nation’s capital, there’s a real life and death struggle taking place on the district’s streets. We pulled data from the DC Open Data portal for Crime Incidents in 2015, and then filtered the data to display crime reports for Assaults with a Deadly Weapon and […]
MOTD: 091316 – CA Software publishers by county
We wanted to see where software publishers were concentrated in California and found the data at the US Census Bureau. We broke out the data by county, and the resulting data viz is below: Want to build a data viz like this? Try FactLook.com for 7-days FREE.
MOTD: 091216 – San Francisco Avg. Monthly Rent and Median Household Income
We were curious as to where rents are highest in notoriously high-rent San Francisco. We found that data, broken out by neighborhood, at rentjungle.com. We then used FactLook’s geocoding feature to plot that data by latitude and longitude. Finally, we created another layer displaying median household income with data obtained via the US Census Bureau. […]
MOTD: 090916 – San Francisco County Total Households and Location of BikeShare Stations
We found a dataset for BikeShare Stations in San Francisco and coupled it with US. Census Bureau data for the total number of households by census tract in San Francisco County. Here’s the result:
MOTD: 090816 – Florida Population by ZIP
On September 8, 1565 Spain founded the first permanent European colony in North America at St. Augustine, Florida. The sunshine state has grown a bit in the ensuing 451 years. This data viz displays the state’s total population by ZIP code using data obtained from the US Census Bureau. We’ve pinned a red triangle at […]
MOTD: 090516 Labor Union Representation by State (2015)
In honor of Labor Day, we pulled data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics to find out where union representation was strongest in the US. We plugged the data into FactLook and the resulting data viz shows a pretty clear trend of less union representation in the south than in the north. New York […]
MOTD: 082416 Florida Fruit Orchard Acreage by County 2015
What’s more synonymous with the Sunshine State than bright, juicy oranges? Yes, weird crimes and the term “hanging chad.” But Florida also owns the perception that it’s the nation’s fruit basket. Surprisingly, Florida’s fruit orchards occupy a small percentage of the state’s total acreage. According to the 2015 Florida Department of Agriculture Comprehensive Statewide Forest Inventory, fruit orchards […]
MOTD: 082316 – Public School Spending Per Student by State, 2014
School’s back in session and we thought it would be interesting to see which states were investing the most money in their public schools. In our hunt for data, we came across a dataset showing Public Spending per Student by State for the year 2014. Here is a visualization of the data: