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Monday Mapday: Georgia Milestones Assessment

Many Georgia schools are taking the 2016 Georgia Milestones Assessments this week, so we decided to take a look at last year's assessments for 3rd grade English Language Arts (ELA).  This map shows public schools in metro Atlanta symbolized by the percent of 3rd graders who were designated "Proficient Learner" and above for the end-of-grade ELA [...]

By |2016-12-08T15:25:16-05:00April 18th, 2016|Education, Monday Mapday|Comments Off on Monday Mapday: Georgia Milestones Assessment

Monday Mapday: Job-to-Worker Ratios

This map shows census tracts in metro Atlanta with high job-to-worker ratios (ratios of 1.9 to 40) using 2014 Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data from the U.S. Census Bureau. This ratio helps to understand the job/worker balance in an area by dividing the number of jobs in a census tract by the number of workers in the same [...]

By |2016-12-08T15:25:16-05:00April 11th, 2016|Economy, Monday Mapday|Comments Off on Monday Mapday: Job-to-Worker Ratios

Transportation Tuesday: Atlanta Regional Transportation Plan

This interactive map shows the projects included in the Regional Transportation Plan, key components of The Atlanta Region's Plan that was adopted in February by the ARC Board. Red = Transit Projects Purple = Roadway Projects Green = Last Mile Connectivity Projects Orange = Other Projects Zoom into the map and click on individual projects to [...]

By |2016-12-08T15:25:17-05:00April 5th, 2016|Transportation, Transportation Tuesday|Comments Off on Transportation Tuesday: Atlanta Regional Transportation Plan

Monday Mapday: 2016 County Health Rankings, Health Behaviors

This Monday we wanted to highlight a few findings from our last post about the 2016 County Health Rankings. Looking at health behaviors by county, specifically percent of adults who smoke and percent of adults who are inactive, we can see there is a pattern between maps. The metro Atlanta counties have the lowest rates [...]

By |2016-12-08T15:25:17-05:00April 4th, 2016|Monday Mapday, Public Health|Comments Off on Monday Mapday: 2016 County Health Rankings, Health Behaviors

Transportation Tuesday: Travel Time to Work

How long does it take you to get to work? This map uses 2010-2014 American Community Survey census tract data to highlight the areas that have the longest average commute, ranging from 34-45 minutes. Most of the concentrations occur outside of the urban core in counties such as Henry, Gwinnett, and Paulding (nearly all of Paulding [...]

By |2016-12-08T15:25:17-05:00March 29th, 2016|Transportation, Transportation Tuesday|Comments Off on Transportation Tuesday: Travel Time to Work

Monday Mapday: 2016 County Health Rankings

The new 2016 County Health Rankings (https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/) rank each county based on health outcomes (length of life and quality of life) and health factors (health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and physical environment). The maps below show the Georgia rankings for health outcomes (left) and factors (right). The majority of the 20 counties [...]

By |2016-12-08T15:25:17-05:00March 28th, 2016|Monday Mapday, Public Health|Comments Off on Monday Mapday: 2016 County Health Rankings
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