{"id":860,"date":"2010-04-07T11:10:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T11:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/departments\/sal\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2015-03-24T14:02:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T14:02:49","slug":"animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal\/2010\/04\/07\/animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Animation of US Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2015\/03\/USPopulationChoropleth.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-278\" title=\"USPopulationChoropleth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2015\/03\/USPopulationChoropleth-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Historic census data were collected from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lib.virginia.edu\/geostat\/index.html\">University of Virgina&#8217;s Geospatial and Statistical Data Center<\/a> and processed in ESRI&#8217;s ArcGIS software to generate historic time period overlays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Flash Maps<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal\/maps\/settlement_dotdens.swf\">Dot Density Map<\/a> (updated March 2010)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal\/maps\/settlement_choropleth.swf\">Choropleth Map<\/a> (updated March 2010)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2015\/03\/USPopulationDotDens.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-275\" title=\"USPopulationDotDens\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2015\/03\/USPopulationDotDens-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Attribution:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Caris, J. &amp; Stearns, C. (2006). Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab. [U.S. Historic Settlement Patterns 1790-2000 animation]. Data sources: TeleAtlas and US Census Bureau, ESRI Data and Maps, 2006.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks and acknowledgment to ESRI&#8217;s George Dailey and Ray Carnes for data discovery and to SAL assistant Abby Mannelin for data processing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Side note:\u00a0 After looking at some of the traffic on this particular map animation, I realized that many people picked up the link and started quite a heated dialog. \u00a0 I never dreamed that such fist-o-cuffs would erupt over our animated map showing US settlement.\u00a0 I (and some of the students who work with me) created this map for a political science instructor here at Smith College.\u00a0 I took it off-line for a period because:<\/p>\n<p>1. I was receiving way too many requests for the data (all of which I answered)<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>2. People were emailing snarky little comments about leaving out native americans, canadians!, etc.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow some of the tirade at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/science\/comments\/86gof\/interesting_animated_map_of_the_settlement_of_the\/\" target=\"_blank\">reddit <\/a>site.\u00a0 I ultimately re-enabled the site after an email from a grade school teacher in Pennsylvania who uses the site in her teaching.\u00a0 The map animations were also requested for use by the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okhistorycenter.org\" target=\"_blank\"> Oklahoma Historical Society Museum<\/a>.\u00a0 Live and learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animating Spread of European Settlement in the US 1790-2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":329,"featured_media":5644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[40,72,103,104],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartography","category-portfolio","tag-animation","tag-flash","tag-population","tag-portfolio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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