Kevin Stolarick of the Creative Class Group and Lisa Taber of
FortiusOne have paired up to develop a series of ‘heat maps’ that show
the hottest places in the country based on your lifestage and some
preselected criteria. The maps allow you to zoom in on specific parts
of the country or see how your current city compares to others.
Each map shows the best regions based on a variety of
criteria all evenly weighted. In this case, "Getting Ahead" shows the
combination of cities that rate the best based on:
criteria all evenly weighted. In this case, "Getting Ahead" shows the
combination of cities that rate the best based on:
Tolerance (higher is
better)
better)
Growth
Number of Creative Class young & single in
the region
the region
The criteria used for each map are listed & described
in the region to the left of the map.
in the region to the left of the map.
Only data for major US cities
(populations above 250,000) has been included.
The map itself is a heat map overlay on a standard Google
Map. So, all of the usual Google map features are available: pan, zoom in
, zoom out, change the background, etc…
The "hotter" — yellow areas are those places that do
the best on the combined criteria.
Come back Monday to see next week’s map: Starting a Family
July 31st, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Does ‘number’ of CC singles refewr to absolute couint, or the percentage of the population?
The latter is what I would consider more important.