How to Create a Map from a Table Using data.census.gov
Learn how to create a map using a table you found on the Census Bureau’s main data search platform, data.census.gov. In this tutorial, we show you how to produce a visualization of data found in table S1701, Poverty Status in the Past 12 Months, for all the census tracts in Stone County, Missouri, as an example.
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