Creating a Choropleth Using Census Data

The main takeaways:
Imagine it! Is there anyplace in the world that has this? I’m guessing towns in Europe, perhaps where the mountains have limited construction. Otherwise, urban places are packed tight — giving the feeling of being pushed into the ocean in New York City.
This book is filled with awesome ideas and facts, like a chart plotting “nuisance distances,” that is where a trip becomes a nuisance depending on how far away something is and how frequent the trip is. Apparently, if something is greater than 50 feet away and you have to make the trip twice an hour, it’s right on the border of being a nuisance. I’ll highlight more of these ideas in coming posts.
For my final book before Mali, I read Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion. In it, Collier talks about the poorest billion (surprise!), and how they differ from the more prosperous poor. Like Jeffrey Sachs‘ idea of a poverty trap, Collier writes about four traps that are keeping the bottom billion down:
And unlike other books that just describe the problems, he has researched solutions: aid, military intervention, laws and charters, and trade policy. But I’ll let you read about those. I have more developed country luxuries to enjoy before I leave, like Giada.