Tagalog in California, Cherokee in Arkansas (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Greetings folks, maybe some of you have caught it already, but the native
languages state map is a ridiculously bad map.

Philcc



On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Phil Cash Cash <weyiiletpu at gmail.com>wrote:

> MAY 13 2014 7:35 AM
> Tagalog in California, Cherokee in Arkansas
> By Ben Blatt
>
> What language does your state speak?
>
> Last month, I wrote about the fun and the pitfalls of viral maps<http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/04/viral_maps_the_problem_with_all_those_fun_maps_of_the_u_s_plus_some_fun.html>,
> a feature that included 88 super-simple maps of my own creation. As a
> follow-up, I’m writing up short items on some of those maps, walking
> through how I created them and how they succumb to (and hopefully overcome)
> the shortfalls of viral cartography.
>
> One of the most interesting data sets for aspiring mapmakers is the Census
> Bureau’s American Community Survey <http://www.census.gov/acs/www/>.
> Among other things, that survey includes a detailed look at the languages
> spoken in American homes. All the maps below are based on the responses to
> this survey. For instance, Mandarin, Cantonese, and other Chinese dialects
> are separated as different responses in the data and were treated as
> different languages when constructing these maps. If those languages had
> been grouped together, the marking of many states would change. In
> addition, Hawaiian is listed as a Pacific Island language, so following the
> ACS classifications, it was not included in the Native American languages
> map. The spelling of each language is based on the language of the ACS.
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/05/language_map_what_s_the_most_popular_language_in_your_state.html
>
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