Mapping Pittsburgh's Immigrant Communities

Where Immigrants Live inwards Allegheny County is a scatterplot map of where Pittsburgh's immigrant communities alive inwards the city.

Each dot on the map represents ane Pittsburgh resident. The dots are colored to exhibit the expanse of the footing where each citizen was born. The scatterplot points tin hand the axe last filtered yesteryear percentage of root to divulge the areas of the metropolis favored yesteryear dissimilar immigrant communities. For example, selecting merely immigrants of Australian descent reveals that many Australian immigrants accept chosen to alive inwards the expanse to the due west of Bird Park.

The map was created alongside Mapbox too Leaflet.js. The scatterplot layer was created inwards QGIS using census data. If you lot are interested inwards learning to a greater extent than close how the map was created Databurgh has published a helpful tutorial on Building a Scatterplot Map inwards QGIS too TileMill.