Thursday, August 11, 2016

Unemployment by state in the USA

Below is a visualization of unemployment rates by county using a powerful Python library called Bokeh. The two maps are for the states of Texas and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

As the second largest economy in the United States (10th largest in the world), Texas shows interesting county variation in macroeconomic factors such as unemployment. According to Wikipedia, in 2015, Texas was home to six of the top 50 companies on the Fortune 500 list and 51 overall (third most after New York and California). The northern counties were least affected by the financial crisis of 2008/09. Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington area encompasses 13 counties which constitute the economic and cultural hub of the region commonly called North Texas or North Central Texas. Bokeh Plot
The least affected counties in Massachusetts were the southernmost tourist areas of Nantuckett and Dukes County. The County of Dukes County consists of 11 islands off the southeast coast of Massachusetts, within sight of Cape Cod. More than 99 percent of the County’s population lives on the largest island, Martha’s Vineyard, an international tourist destination and vacation-home resort. Bokeh Plot

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