About me
I am a graduate of Grinnell College with a degree in Biological Chemistry. The name of this blog is derived from the name I use in Chinese, 孟柏民 (Mèng Bómín).
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Category Archives: Maps
The New York Times explores the 2010 Census
Last year, I pointed to an interactive racial/ethnic dot map modeled on the maps of Eric Fischer that The New York Times had created using the Census projections available at the time. With the release of the 2010 Census data, … Continue reading
Where are the terrorists?
Last night, I found out via Facebook that there was an interesting glitch in Google Translate. The original message went as thus: Jews are terrorists Americans are terrorists Arabs are terrorists” if you put this in google translate, it says … Continue reading
The New York Times displays racial distribution nationwide
The New York Times has generated a pan-and-zoom map of the United States that shows the distribution of racial and ethnic groups, using a method very similar to that of Bill Rankin and Eric Fischer in the maps that I … Continue reading
A look at the Aral Sea
SpaceGizmo points to this lovely image of the South Aral Sea basin taken by NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite. The white areas are sort of a “bathtub ring” of salt indicating the area that was once covered by this sea, which … Continue reading
Two interesting points
I left a comment on Eric Fischer’s photoset laying out some of my thoughts on the coloring of his urban racial/ethnic distribution maps, to which he had the following response: Thanks for trying out some other colors! To my (red-green-colorblind) … Continue reading
Musings on map coloration
While checking my feed reader for the day, I noticed that Andrew Gelman had come across the same set of maps by Eric Fischer that I referenced in the previous post. Intrigued, I checked the comments. At the time, the … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Musings
Tagged Andrew Gelman, Asian, Bill Rankin, black, Chicago, Eric Fischer, Hispanic, race, Steve Sailer, white
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American metropolitan racial segregation mapped
FlowingData pointed out a stunning array of maps showing racial distributions in 40 major American metropolitan areas made by Eric Fischer. Fischer modeled his maps off of the following presentation of the racial distribution of Chicago done by Bill Rankin: … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Politics
Tagged Chicago, Detroit, Eric Fischer, LA, Los Angeles, Maps, New York City, NYC, race
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