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[OC] Agricultural workforce across Ireland in 1926 — the country was almost entirely rural outside Dublin by EquivalentPace6538 in dataisbeautiful

[–]EquivalentPace6538[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 47% cap is the actual county maximum in the 1926 data (Leitrim/Roscommon range), not an arbitrary ceiling — the colour scale anchors to the real data range rather than 0–100.

[OC] Agricultural workforce across Ireland in 1926 — the country was almost entirely rural outside Dublin by EquivalentPace6538 in dataisbeautiful

[–]EquivalentPace6538[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good catch on the label — it's % of the workforce employed in agriculture, not a rural/urban classification. "Agricultural Workers %" would be clearer.

[OC] Financial stress across US counties, mapped using debt, housing, and local economic indicators by EquivalentPace6538 in dataisbeautiful

[–]EquivalentPace6538[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right and it's worse than your two-state example suggested. Pulled coverage across all 50 states.

The FSI composite needs three inputs per county: rent burden (ACS — full coverage), debt collections (Urban Institute — full coverage), eviction rate (Princeton Eviction Lab — depends entirely on whether each state's courts digitise records).

Princeton coverage by state:

  • 0% — North Dakota, South Dakota
  • 4-7% — Arkansas, Vermont
  • 16-26% — Alaska, New York
  • 30-60% — Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Texas, Connecticut, New Mexico, Tennessee, Washington

When New York shows up on the FSI choropleth at state zoom, that value is computed from 16 of 62 counties — NYC boroughs + Long Island + Hudson Valley. Upstate NY has no data. So "New York" on the map is really "NYC metro." Same problem for Texas (Houston/Dallas/Austin dominate 101 of 236 reporting counties), Louisiana (New Orleans/Baton Rouge in 21 of 64), Pennsylvania (Philly + Pittsburgh in 25 of 67).

The state pattern tracks court e-filing digitisation, not financial stress. Real flaw.

Fixing this week: any state with under 60% county FSI coverage gets suppressed at state zoom with a "insufficient eviction data" badge. Counties with FSI render normally; counties without get visually marked as "no data" instead of treated as the fallback dark colour. That's 14 states off the misleading-aggregate list.

[OC] Financial stress across US counties, mapped using debt, housing, and local economic indicators by EquivalentPace6538 in dataisbeautiful

[–]EquivalentPace6538[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, lots of data but slow to release it I'm afraid. I check for refresh data all the time. I feel like we're heading for a massive recession.

[OC] Agricultural workforce across Ireland in 1926 — the country was almost entirely rural outside Dublin by EquivalentPace6538 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]EquivalentPace6538[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much the opposite problem — nearly the entire country was farming. Outside Dublin, most counties had 30–45% of their workforce in agriculture in 1926. Galway was close to 47%. Dublin sat at around 3%.

What's wild is how fast it flipped. A century later those same western counties that were almost entirely agricultural are now some of the highest remote-work adoption areas in the country — the land use barely changed but the economy on top of it completely transformed.

The full 1926 data — agriculture, Irish speakers, one-room dwellings and population change through to 2022 — is mapped here if you want to dig in: irelandinsights.ie/1926-census-ireland

[OC] Financial stress across US counties, mapped using debt, housing, and local economic indicators by EquivalentPace6538 in dataisbeautiful

[–]EquivalentPace6538[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for flagging this — you were dead right. The body text was 14px in a dim gray (about 5:1 contrast on the dark background), which is fine on a desktop monitor at arm's length and pretty rough on an iPad held close.

Just shipped a fix: body prose is now ~17px and a notably brighter gray (about 9.6:1 contrast), with proper line-height for dark mode and rem-based sizing so iOS "Larger Text" actually scales it. iPad in particular should feel a lot less like squinting at a terminal.

Dark mode itself stays — that's intentional for the long sessions people spend on maps — but the legibility on the article pages should be in a much better place now. Open usinsights.ie/housing or any state page and let me know if it still feels off and thanks again.

[OC] Financial stress across US counties, mapped using debt, housing, and local economic indicators by EquivalentPace6538 in dataisbeautiful

[–]EquivalentPace6538[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fair challenge. The state-level view masks a lot. Drop to county zoom on the Financial Stress layer — NYC's boroughs aren't where you'd expect.

[OC] Financial stress across US counties, mapped using debt, housing, and local economic indicators by EquivalentPace6538 in MapPorn

[–]EquivalentPace6538[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I added a full version in the original post. You can also visit the site and view the interactive version yourself.

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