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Children of Immigrants visualization

Version 2 built in 2015, originally built in 2012. Appendix

Data updates

  • First, run formatdata.R to format and combine separate metro & state datasets for visualization, saved in areadata.csv
  • If numbers change siginificantly, run categorymaximums.R to update Y axis max values used in visualization, which are saved in categorymaximums.js
  • Then, if included CBSAs have changed, run geodata.R to download & unzip Census shapefiles, create subsetted CBSA shapefile that includes analyzed CBSAs only, and create merged state + CBSA topojson
  • Requires installation of gdal and topojson
  • Edit text.js to update metric labels and category text as needed
  • If adding additional years of data, add to animator.js layers, and edit linechart.js domain and data list.