1990 versus 2000

Courtesy AustinContrarian  Mon, 07/20/2009 - 12:39am

Following up on my entry on neighborhood "tipping points":

Commenter Nick pointed out that the maps of Austin I posted there use 20% class breaks, which perhaps causes them to exaggerate the degree of segregation.

 For example, two census tract will have the same shading even if one is 19% African-American and the other 1% African-American.

 That's a fair point (although the class breaks do a good job of showing census tracts in which  African Americans and Hispanics...


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