MOTD: 091916 Number of Honey Bee Colonies Lost with Five or More Colonies: January-March 2016

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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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