Map of America’s “Techiest” Cities

Today at lunch I read that DC is one of the geekiest cities in the country. Now that I’ve spent a couple months with Development Seed I can’t help but see one of these “top 20 cities” lists (or any other list) and wonder where the data comes from, if it’s open, and what I can do with it. It turns out that the NSF data driving that list is released on their Science and Engineering Indicators: 2010 site. I grabbed the data, ran it through TileMill, and uploaded the map to TileStream Hosting. Now I can see the NSF’s data in a more geographic, visual format that I think is easier to digest.

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Category: commentary, datavis