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Worst Commutes

A good chunk of the worst commutes belong to counties in the area around our nation's capital.

Best Commutes

Tired of waiting in traffic? Consider packing bags and moving to Alaska. On the other hand, maybe waiting in traffic isn't so bad after all.

The following sources were invaluable in producing this visualization:

US Counties GeoJSON

http://eric.clst.org/tech/usgeojson/

A GeoJSON containing the geographic boundaries of every US county, converted from US Census Bureau shapefiles.

American Community Survey

https://factfinder.census.gov

The data on American commuters was provided by Census table S0801 from the 2016 (5-year) American Community Survey.

Source Code

https://github.com/vincentlaucsb/US-Map

This visualization was built by Vincent La with the help of JavaScript (leaflet.js, c3.js, and custom code), PostgreSQL, and Python.