Paper Info
Title
A tale of four cities: exploring the soul of State College, Detroit, Milledgeville and Biloxi
Abstract
Can data help us explore and expose the soul of the community? This was the challenge posed by the 2013 Data Exposition. The Knight Foundation, in cooperation with Gallup, furnished data from 43,000 people over 3 years (2008–2010) in 26 communities, which we explored in an effort to discover variables associated with community attachment. Our analysis focused on four cities that stood out after our initial exploration of the data set: State College, PA; Detroit, MI; Milledgeville, GA; and Biloxi, MS. We present our use of survey-weighted binned scatterplots to graphically explore the association between an individual’s community attachment and perceived economic outlook. Additionally, we present a few other analyses we found interesting during our initial exploration which we view as a collection of “short stories”.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s00180-018-00863-x
Computational Statistics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
2013 ASA data exposition, Exploratory data analysis, Survey data, Reproducible research, Statistical graphics, Binned scatterplots
Journal
34
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0943-4062
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karsten Maurer100.34
Dave Osthus242.53
Adam Loy300.34