census3nicar14

CHRIS
Get the data ....

	Census Reporter ... GEOJSON or CSV
	- For example: Age by Language Spoken at Home for the Population 5 Years and Over
	- Download here http://censusreporter.org/data/map/?table=B16007&geo_ids=16000US2507000,05000US25025,31000US14460,04000US25,01000US,160|04000US25&primary_geo_id=16000US2507000#
	
	- Everything is zipped and comes with metadata.json (contains fieldnames and such)
	- topojson will make this geojson smaller, but make sure you preserve properties!
	
	US Atlas
	- Mike Bostock collected a bunch of GIS resources in one place
	- Everything is in the Makefile. Just git clone and make.
	- https://github.com/mbostock/us-atlas
	
	Caveat: Node Canvas is a pain to install. If it gives you trouble, comment it out in package.json before you make.

JOHN 
Fusion Tables

	PROS
	- Easy
	- Usually free
	- You have it already
	- Good for fast, quick, low-data maps

	http://drive.google.com
	CREATE -> Fusion Table
	upload the census data
	
	Next you need the shapes
	
	Census Shapefiles
	http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2012/main
	
	But you need them to be in KML for Google
	One way is to use CartoDB to upload then Export
	http://cartodb.com
	
	Using Export to download 
	
	CREATE -> Fusion Table
	
	upload the KML
	(I did it already, so it's in my account)
	
	Join the tables together with file -> Merge
	
	Style them with the buttons on the left
	Legends
	
	Embed them with SHARE
	

JOHN
CartoDB
	
	PROS
	- Friendly interface
	- Free to tinker (otherwise paid)
	- Great team / support
	- Handles bigger data pretty well
	- We like it for internal draft maps for reporters
	
	Show median income with wizard
	
	Life in the Middle story
	http://www.wnyc.org/story/life-in-the-middle/
	
	The map Jenny Ye made with aSQL statement:
	SELECT *  FROM life_in_the_middle_merge WHERE median_income < '52865' AND median_income > '50865'
	
	Show sharing with URL
	http://cdb.io/OOUH5u


JOHN
Mapbox / Tilemill

	PROS
	- Complete style control
	- Rendered ahead of time
	- Superfast load, even on mobile
	- Great for high-data maps

	Median income across the US
	http://project.wnyc.org/median-income-nation/#5/39.859/-74.751
	

JOHN
QGIS

	PROS
	- Can change shapefiles
	- Billions of other things
	- For that moment when you need to change / blend / reproject 
	
	Remove water from census trick outlined here:
	http://johnkeefe.net/water-begone
	

CHRIS
Leaflet
	
	- Start with GeoJSON (or topojson and unpack it). Leaflet knows how to deal with GeoJSON out of the box: http://leafletjs.com/reference.html#geojson
	- I use [d3.scale.quantize](https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Quantitative-Scales#wiki-quantize) and [colorbrewer](https://github.com/mbostock/d3/tree/master/lib/colorbrewer) but you don't have to.
	- Example, inequality by county: http://eyeseast.github.io/visible-data/2014/01/28/inequality-in-every-county-in-america/#5/38.942/-98.372

CHRIS
D3 svg

	- Start with GeoJSON (or topojson and unpack it)
	- Mike Bostock has a [good tutorial here](http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/) on mapping with D3.
	- For choropleth maps, again, use [d3.scale.quantize](https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Quantitative-Scales#wiki-quantize) and [colorbrewer](https://github.com/mbostock/d3/tree/master/lib/colorbrewer)
	- Example, mapping states: http://eyeseast.github.io/visible-data/2013/08/26/responsive-d3/