“While women comprise 49.6% of the global population, they have the majority in the United States, where 50.8% of the total population is female. But what do the numbers look like at the state level? The Washington Post put together a map yesterday purporting to show which states had more women than men and vice versa. Their map was widely circulated, jumping to the number one spot on the popular subreddit Data is Beautiful and was the most read story on the Washington Post for a while…”

Source: twentytwowords.com

Unfortunately the top map was pretty sloppy way to visually explain the census data…it’s wasn’t THAT wrong (sorry Alaska and Hawaii), but the symbols convey a greater degree of difference than actually exists.  Below is a map that shows the differences in the data in a much more informative matter. 

Tags: cartography, mapping, 201, visualization, gender, census, USA.