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"Using some decent data from the board of elections for City of St. Louis, I have mapped voter behavior for the City of St. Louis. Normally, voter behavior is described by the geography of voter precinct. But, thanks to the artful technology of GIS, I was able to "geocode" voter records by street address and then spatially join them into smaller geographies, such as census block groups, and even down to the smallest census blocks.
"This can be of use to organizations that are concerned about voter advocacy, and may help target blocks for voter registration and/or targeting of active voters. Also, I mapped socioeconomic variables (poverty, income, age, race, education). There appears to be some correlation between voting behavior and poverty, income, and education. It warrants further statistical analysis.
"Two of my favorites are the poster-sized conference maps. I presented them at a regional GIS conference last Tuesday, in Kansas City. I complemented this study with a research paper that explains the methods and techniques that I utilized. My paper also includes scholarly discussion on David Olson's hypothesis that socioeconomic status is limited in explaining variance in voter behavior, which can be further explained by neighborhood stability and ecological variables."
Maps by Alan Lamberg can be found on his portfolio website.
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