Mapping the Boom 4: 2006-03-19
By William M. Hartnett on Mar 19, 2006 in CAR, mapping the boom, projects, work
The fourth and final installment of the Mapping the Boom series on South Florida’s real estate boom. Without a doubt, the best of the bunch. The hot spot map on the cover of the 56-page special section was created in the spatial statistics program CrimeStat, and took nearly nine hours to process on my old PC. (I later repeated the procedure on my current twin dual-core 64-bit 3.7 GHz Xeon workstation and was done in 26 minutes. Not a bad case for the productivity gains possible with upgraded hardware.)
STORY, MAP AND DOWNLOAD LINKS
Mapping the Boom 4 main page
Palm Beach County interactive map
Martin County interactive map
St. Lucie County interactive map
Hot-spot neighborhoods interactive map
Print pages in PDF: Right-click and save-as to download (11.9 MB, 20 pages)
RECOGNITION FOR ‘MAPPING THE BOOM’
First place, best newspaper real estate section, National Association of Real Estate Editors
First place, real estate reporting, SPJ Sunshine State Awards
First place, special sections, Florida Press Club
First place, special sections, Florida Society of Newspaper Editors
