Jeremia Kimelman @jeremiak.com · Dec 16

Here's a different kind of map I made to get an understanding of what large numbers of people mean - in this case what it meant for more than 40,000 people to be reported dead in Gaza. It groups California census tracts together to get a population roughly equal to 40k and highlights them in orange

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Jeremia Kimelman · Dec 16

The screenshot includes my house near the urban core of Sacramento, showing me that that many people means everybody within an at least 10 block radius of my home. I originally experimented with this technique for visualizing the huge number of people living on California streets (more than 180k).