per capita numbers instead of absolute numbers for community areas

[cathydeng]

while absolute numbers make sense for blocks, problematic to compare absolute numbers across community areas b/c populations are diff

[fgregg]

That's okay. Won't really change things that much.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 5:06 PM Cathy Deng notifications@github.com wrote:

while absolute numbers make sense for blocks, problematic to compare
absolute numbers across community areas b/c populations are diff

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[jakebittle]

Divided total spending listed on the map (2005-2009 incarcerations) by appx. neighborhood population (average of 2000 and 2010 censuses) and got these numbers, which, as you say, still yield the same five neighborhoods with high concentrations:

Carceral spending per capita — Neighborhood (2010 # / 2000#)
$6234 — North Lawndale (6699/5769)
$5130 — Austin (5582/4679)
$4949 — West Englewood (5548/4350)
$4826 — Humboldt Park (5202/4450)
$3289 — Roseland (3563/3015)

Re-ordering is less the point than the explanation of Austin as an outlier (dramatic, in bar graph).

:)