Housing Unit Density USA – Minimum Viable Python | blog

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George Girton

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December 9, 2024

Hexagons!

US map of 2020 Housing Unit density, plotted at the H5 level — Mind the maps! (notice vast empty areas)

Digression: The Analogy of the “Fine Chancery Hand”

This is surely a digression, but I happened to look at Brad DeLong’s economic growth course slides, and he makes the analogy of data science to the chancery hand. But before chancery hand was italic handwriting, the hand of the Vatican scribes.

Data Management, Analysis, and Presentation Skills Are to the 21st Century What Writing in a Chancery Hand Was to the 13th

Which you may learn by (somehow) obtaining John Le F. Dumpleton’s book on handwriting, an italic flat-nibbed pen, and practicing up.

Digression ][ Italic

By dint of making very many malformed ovoids (see illustration from book below) you will be able to make them more quickly and perfectly than ever before.

A small amount of diligent practice — Maldformed Ovoids

So, getting back to data science.

Here’s an H5 map of housing unit density

Kansas in Context — Mind the maps! (notice vast empty areas)

A cabin in the woods — Cabin in the woods

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title: "Housing Unit Density USA"
author: "George Girton"
date: "2024-12-09"
categories: [Maps, demographics]
image: "FargoMinneapolisSiouxFallsHousingUnits.png"
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## Hexagons!

![Mind the maps! (notice vast empty areas)](USHousingUnits.png){fig-alt="US map of 2020 Housing Unit density, plotted at the H5 level"}

> > Digression: The Analogy of the “Fine Chancery Hand”

This is surely a digression, but I happened to look at Brad DeLong's economic growth course slides, and he makes the analogy of data science to the chancery hand. But before chancery hand was *italic* handwriting, the hand of the Vatican scribes.

<a href="https://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/08/data-management-analysis-and-presentation-skills-are-to-the-21st-century-what-writing-in-a-chancery-hand-was-to-the-13th-h.html">Data Management, Analysis, and Presentation Skills Are to the 21st Century What Writing in a Chancery Hand Was to the 13th</a>

Which you may learn by (somehow) obtaining John Le F. Dumpleton's book on handwriting, an italic flat-nibbed pen, and practicing up.

> Digression \]\[ Italic ![Handwriting](Handwriting.png){fig-alt="beaciful"}

By dint of making very many malformed ovoids (see illustration from book below) you will be able to make them more quickly and perfectly than ever before.

![Maldformed Ovoids](MalformedOvoids.png){fig-alt="A small amount of diligent practice"}

So, getting back to data science.

Here's an H5 map of housing unit density

![Mind the maps! (notice vast empty areas)](KansasHousingUnits.png){fig-alt="Kansas in Context"}

![Cabin in the woods](Cabin.png){fig-alt="A cabin in the woods"}

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