Why the city is hotter than the suburb

Statistical Visualization / city, heat, NPR

NPR used video from a thermographic camera to explain why cities tend to be hotter than their surrounding areas. Straightforward and a good complement to the video.

Imagine that those with immigrants in their family tree left the country. Almost everyone, basically.

A few months back, the Caltrans Performance Measurement System (PeMS) …

I looked at the percentages of people with a given number of kids in the family and the order they were born.

After looking at pizza places, coffee, and grocery stores, I had to look at burger chains across the country. The data was just sitting there.