12.12.09 - updated: 3.14.15

An exploration in Ruby of making US County thematic maps.

About

This is a rework of Nathan Yau's post on his blog Flowing Data entitled "How to Make a US County Thematic Map Using Free Tools."

Inspiration / Tutorial

http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/

Data

Labor force data by county: http://www.bls.gov/lau/laucntycur14.txt found at Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Preprocessing / Cleanup

1. Modify the script cleanup.rb to open the proper raw data file and set outfile path
2. Run ruby cleanup.rb to transform raw data into CSV format