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datamade / million-dollar-blocks

:moneybag: An interactive visualization of incarceration spending in Chicago
https://chicagosmilliondollarblocks.com
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per capita numbers instead of absolute numbers for community areas #19

Open cathydeng opened 9 years ago

cathydeng commented 9 years ago

while absolute numbers make sense for blocks, problematic to compare absolute numbers across community areas b/c populations are diff

fgregg commented 9 years ago

That's okay. Won't really change things that much.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 5:06 PM Cathy Deng notifications@github.com wrote:

while absolute numbers make sense for blocks, problematic to compare absolute numbers across community areas b/c populations are diff

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/datamade/million-dollar-blocks/issues/19.

jakebittle commented 9 years ago

Divided total spending listed on the map (2005-2009 incarcerations) by appx. neighborhood population (average of 2000 and 2010 censuses) and got these numbers, which, as you say, still yield the same five neighborhoods with high concentrations:

Carceral spending per capita — Neighborhood (2010 # / 2000#) $6234 — North Lawndale (6699/5769) $5130 — Austin (5582/4679)
$4949 — West Englewood (5548/4350) $4826 — Humboldt Park (5202/4450) $3289 — Roseland (3563/3015)

Re-ordering is less the point than the explanation of Austin as an outlier (dramatic, in bar graph).

:)