Paul Grabowicz's Page

In our class discussions here about the demographics of metropolitan areas, one of the students, Kim Geiger, came up with an idea that might work for the all-schools collaboration on a national project.

The student suggested drawing up a list of 20 or so types of important demographic or other data on a town or city that is not accessible on Internet sites such as the Census Bureau's. This would be data collected by local agencies that would require a little legwork to gather. Could be things l… Continue

Readings and Resources:

Under One Roof - The death and life of the New York department store - New Yorker

Interactive Projects:

Curating the City: Wilshire Boulevard

The Golden Gate District - Then and Now - rollovers… Continue

Databases, Visualizations and Stories

• DataZoo - links to databases.


• UUorld - dynamic data mapping and visualizations.


• Interactive graphic on weather data - Synoptic site, using data from Ausburg, Germany.


• Visualizing Election Poll

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From Tasneem Paghdiwala

My book is "America By the Numbers: A Field Guide to the U.S. Population," which is bascially a compendium of interesting data from the 2000 census and a number of late 90s surveys (the book came out in 2001). It's by William Frey, a demographer a the U. Mich. Population Studies Center, and the founder of the Social Science Data Analysis Network, and by two of his colleagues at SSDAN.

The premise of the book is that if "demography is destiny," as one 19th-century French… Continue

From Amanda Martinez:

Authors: Valle and Torres

This book looks specifically at the Latino community of East Los Angeles as a microcosm of the Latino condition in California. By looking directly at this community there is much to be learned about globalization, immigration, and Latino Politics. The six chapters of this book focus on ideas of political representation, media’s representation, and geography of Latinos in LA.


Most importantly this book emphasizes understanding the political and… Continue