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CHRIS
Get the data ....
Census Reporter ... GEOJSON or CSV
US Atlas

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

CHRIS
D3 svg