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On the Records: Visualize Texas' Growth

Yesterday, Google formally announced its public data explorer, a cool new tool allowing anyone to make visualizations of government records and post them as embeds online.

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Yesterday, Google formally announced its public data explorer, a cool new tool allowing anyone to make visualizations of government records and post them as embeds online. 

We've posted about this site before, but now it has many new features, filters and data sets. Here's a chart we created from U.S. Census Bureau data that shows the five counties in Texas that grew at the highest rate from 2000-2008. 

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