A few days ago, I heard about an amendment to the “correctional housing” ordinance that required all facilities to be more than 1,000 feet from a school, park, or other correctional housing facility. Correctional housing facilities are where people on parole can live with other people on parole. …

In what is turning out to be the most colorful map I’ve built this year, here’s a Harris County early voting map plus census demographic data. This map includes: 2016 results by early voting location 2012 results by early voting location Census tracts that are >50% Hispanic, according to 2010 Census data Census tracts that are >50% African American, according to 2010 Census data You can view the map here. Because of the new layers, the map weighs in at 25MB, so give it a moment to load.

After I published yesterday’s map of turnout by early voting location, my friend Aziz asked an interesting question: I couldn’t find the 2012 numbers either, so I emailed Stan Stanart, the Harris County Clerk:

Early voting ended on Friday, and the county clerk published turnout numbers here. I turned the PDF into a csv, geocoded the locations, and mapped the total turnout here. For much richer and more informative Harris County election maps, follow Rebecca Elliott, Mike Morris, Steven David, and Kris Banks.

I looked at 2,505 tweets with the hashtag #IfIDoNothingElseTodayIWill. I thought this was an interesting dataset to learn more about word correlations. To get a sense of what people are talking about, here are the word frequencies: #IfIDoNothingElseTodayIWill - 2,505 Tweets | bar chart made by Fileunderjeff | plotly Fileunderjeff's interactive graph and data of "#IfIDoNothingElseTodayIWill - 2,505 Tweets" is a bar chart; with word in…plot.ly