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Plan for replicating the Chicago race map

[ ] Download 2014 ACS 5y ancestry estimates (census tracts) [ ] Knock out all non-livable areas out of the census tracts [ ] Roadedge (Cook Co Open Data) [ ] Parks (Cook) [ ] Non-residential land use (OSM) [ ] Non-residental OSM buildings (OSM) [ ] Massively simplify the resulting tracts

Option 1:

[ ] Create one random dot per each race in the tract [ ] Create hulls around each race polygon [ ] Try to extract some patterns from that

Option 2:

[ ] Identify the most common ancestry in the tract [ ] Dissolve any adjacent tracts [ ] Drop any tiny sliver tract fragments [ ] Simplify some more

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