Welcome to The Data Mine
My colleague John Coleman talks about the relationship between data, information and knowledge: How data is vital, but not so useful until it can be turned into information and then disseminated as...
View ArticleThe apartment boom
The growth in the share of multifamily units in Maryland has been striking since the mid-2000s housing bubble burst. Multi-family housing — generally, apartments — made up 38 percent of all...
View ArticleAs DC goes …
Two members of the Maryland Department of Planning weigh in on a recent article in the New York Times titled, “Why D.C. Is Doing So Well“ David Whitaker: Something similar occurred in the D.C. area...
View ArticleAlready a majority-minority Maryland (below 40)
Both Maryland and the nation are moving towards becoming majority-minority, where minorities make up more than 50 percent of the population. Minorities are defined as everyone other than “non-Hispanic...
View ArticleWhen the flow slowed to Pennsylvania
One of the most profound impacts on interstate migration for the boom/bust period that began about a decade ago was the migration flow between Maryland and Pennsylvania. Maryland had net population...
View ArticleWhat the ACS report tells us about Maryland
The American Community Survey (ACS) released this morning by the U.S. Census Bureau reveals a treasure trove of data about jurisdictions with populations of at least 65,000 people. In Maryland, 16...
View ArticleData from the PG-Montgomery melting pot
The 2009-2011 American Community Survey was made public today. It is a massive amount of data that covers all geographies of 20,000 or more in population. In Maryland, that includes 62 places plus all...
View ArticleThe Impact of the Federal Shutdown on Maryland… and the States
Map: Total Number of Full and Part-Time Federal Workers by State – 2012 (click to open large map) While it is no secret that the partial shutdown of the federal government and the furloughing of...
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