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Abstract:
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Statistical innovation produces opportunities for knowledge advancement and policy improvement. In the last two hundred years an important thread of innovation has been the visualization of data. Minard's 19th Century diagram on Napoleon's army - cited as "the best statistical graphic ever drawn" - possessed clarity and communicated much statistical and geographic data in a limited space. Now information technology and data modeling have permitted the creation of a dynamic, online mapping and reporting tool, called OnTheMap, that analyzes and clearly displays vast amounts of data for detailed geography while preserving confidentiality. OnTheMap is the product of a visionary idea at the U.S. Census Bureau and among its state partners that a new, cost-effective, 21st Century statistical system can be built by integrating existing administrative records with census and survey data.
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