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Data Tuesday: Human Geography NYC

A Snapshot of NYC’s Human Geography

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Peter Banks
Jul 08, 2025
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I had a lot of fun last week looking at how the demographics of Chicago changed between 1940 and 2020. If you want to check out those maps, you can see the article here—please go like and restack the article to boost it in the algorithm!

In order to construct those maps, I made two stylistic decisions. First, I wanted to focus on just Chicago. The logic…

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