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A variety of maps, writings, and photos on a various topics that can’t easily be categorized into a county or place.

Firearm Ownership In The United States

Lately there has been a lot of people making dot-density maps up, with one dot representing a person or a series of people. I thought those maps were kind of interesting, so I decided to play with QGIS and see what I could make. I found a website that offered an estimate of what percentage of a state's residents own firearms and multiplied it against population. As I figured it would make too many dots to do one dot per gun owner, I made a map of one dot per 1,000 gun owners in each state -- giving people a relative density of gun ownership in each state.

Data Source: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state

Hispanic Population In America

 Hispanic Population In America

Data Source: 2015 American Community Survey 5-year estimates by County. factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml?refresh=t