Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Where the Donors At?

Though I haven't posted anything for a while, it doesn't mean I've been completely absent on the map-front. Au contraire, I've given myself a few projects to do at work showing where the donors, donations, and lecture attendees come from, and today I'll share a map of donors for [place of work omitted].

I chose to show this map by zip code for two reasons. First, I have zip codes for all the donors. Second, there are zip code map shapefiles easily obtainable online. Future variants of this map will be more neighborhood specific, though I'll probably just translate all the addresses into GPS positions and map those, rather than find a way of using street maps or something crazy like that.

You would think, for those of you familiar with Chattanooga, that you should be able to identify wealthier areas of town based on the number of donors for that zip code. This map is sort of surprising in that regard, as the heaviest donor base is actually in Marion County, which would not have been my first guess.