Bostonians, meet your neighbors
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 5:27 pm
You Europeans in Boston are surrounded by non-Whites
You can either one day go west or maybe make a break by sea...or you can organize and make your stand.
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This colorful map illustrates where Boston’s immigrants live
By Eric Levenson
Boston.com Staff
09.09.15
East Boston, Franklin Park, and Mattapan are a bundle of blue, Chinatown is thick with green, and purple decorates the western part of Dorchester in this fascinating, color-filled map of immigrant populations in Boston.
The interactive dot map is the creation of TCU assistant professor Kyle Walker, who used demographic data from the 2009-2013 American Community Survey and the U.S. Census.
Each color represents an immigrant’s native region: blue for Latin America, green for East/Southeast Asia, orange for Europe, and so on. A dot represents about 20 immigrants in that given area.
Walker said in an interview with Boston.com that he has studied immigration trends broadly, but the map really made individual immigrant populations stand out.
“Being able to look around the country and see clusters of different colored dots, and then look into that a little bit further and learn something new about a place – that’s something that was really interesting to me,” he said.
In particular, Walker noticed the purple dots around Brockton, representing its Sub-Saharan Africa immigrant population, largely from Cape Verde.
“That’s something the map can inform and reveal. It’s something I wasn’t familiar with beforehand,” Walker said. “That’s the real power of data visualization.”
With those colors in mind, we picked out a few notable migration patterns in Boston and in the rest of Massachusetts. You can see the full map here:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massac ... story.html
You can either one day go west or maybe make a break by sea...or you can organize and make your stand.
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This colorful map illustrates where Boston’s immigrants live
By Eric Levenson
Boston.com Staff
09.09.15
East Boston, Franklin Park, and Mattapan are a bundle of blue, Chinatown is thick with green, and purple decorates the western part of Dorchester in this fascinating, color-filled map of immigrant populations in Boston.
The interactive dot map is the creation of TCU assistant professor Kyle Walker, who used demographic data from the 2009-2013 American Community Survey and the U.S. Census.
Each color represents an immigrant’s native region: blue for Latin America, green for East/Southeast Asia, orange for Europe, and so on. A dot represents about 20 immigrants in that given area.
Walker said in an interview with Boston.com that he has studied immigration trends broadly, but the map really made individual immigrant populations stand out.
“Being able to look around the country and see clusters of different colored dots, and then look into that a little bit further and learn something new about a place – that’s something that was really interesting to me,” he said.
In particular, Walker noticed the purple dots around Brockton, representing its Sub-Saharan Africa immigrant population, largely from Cape Verde.
“That’s something the map can inform and reveal. It’s something I wasn’t familiar with beforehand,” Walker said. “That’s the real power of data visualization.”
With those colors in mind, we picked out a few notable migration patterns in Boston and in the rest of Massachusetts. You can see the full map here:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massac ... story.html