Diversity and Segregation - Vancouver Data Viz short

A concise version of a past project for a spatial data-viz audience.

Source content: https://www.dshkol.com/2018/diversity-and-segregation-canadian-cities/

Code: (Rmd) https://github.com/dshkol/scratchpad/blob/master/content/post/2018-05-10-diversity-and-segregation-i.Rmd

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1. Diversity and Segregation in Canadian Cities Dmitry Shkolnik/ Aug 2018/ @dshkol
2. 13 visible minority groups in the Census Not a visible minority South Asian Chinese Black Filipino Latin American Arab Southeast Asian West Asian Korean Japanese Other, and Multiple visible minorities
3. = % ln 1 =1 A more “even” a distribution across multiple groups = higher + value = greater diversity Local diversity = the relationship between proportions of different groups within an area MEASURING DIVERSITY
4. The most diverse places in Metro Vancouver
5. Are Burnaby and Coquitlam
6. GTA suburbs are more diverse than Montreal’s
7. The most diverse cities in Canada are all in Toronto and Vancouver CMAs
8. Difference between sub-region diversity and total region diversity Segregation
9. Some of the most diverse places in Canada are also the most segregated
10. How does that happen?
11. Consider the city of Toronto
12. Data: Census 2016 via cancensus R package Background: The Multigroup Entropy Index (Also Known as Theil’s H or Information Theory Index), Iceland (2004) Blog: post:https://www.dshkol.com/2018/diversit y-and-segregation-canadian-cities/ Code: https://github.com/dshkol/scratchpad Twitter: @dshkol