US Census Bureau data for Austin and other cities

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by JoninATX

So hopefully the city won't be as bas as it was back in the 1980's.

1980s.

Plurals versus possessives.

[Tech House]

^^^this from the guy who, earlier today, wrote this: "...it happens to absorb even poorer immigrants thus making it's economic situation even worse." [emphasis added]

Sorry, I couldn't resist. We all make this type of mistake. I occasionally do the "their" vs. "there" substitution, which is even worse.

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by Tech House

^^^this from the guy who, earlier today, wrote this: "...it happens to absorb even poorer immigrants thus making it's economic situation even worse." [emphasis added]

Sorry, I couldn't resist. We all make this type of mistake. I occasionally do the "their" vs. "there" substitution, which is even worse.

Damn. I missed one. That's like the only mistake I make on the regular, and I always try to re-read my comments beforehand and make sure I've gotten the right its/it's... not even kidding, when I posted the above comment, I thought "oh snap, someone's gonna read me for its/it's, I just know it."

It's versus its is just a really difficult one to wrap my head around since, well, they technically should both have an apostrophe by the normal standards (being a contraction and a possessive, respectively).

[Tech House]

Originally Posted by wwmiv

Here's some quick plots that I did:

Thanks for your stats, graphs, and analysis. Fun stuff. It's kind of amazing to realize that there are other people in this world who are even nerdier than me. I used to drive my family crazy when I was a preteen, because they couldn't mention the name of a place without me jumping in with population and other statistics. My dad called me "Geographer George." When I was in 1st and 2nd grade, instead of reading comic books I would read the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Were you like that, or did you acquire your interests later in life?

The US Census has always been like porn to me.

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by Tech House

Thanks for your stats, graphs, and analysis. Fun stuff. It's kind of amazing to realize that there are other people in this world who are even nerdier than me. I used to drive my family crazy when I was a preteen, because they couldn't mention the name of a place without me jumping in with population and other statistics. My dad called me "Geographer George." When I was in 1st and 2nd grade, instead of reading comic books I would read the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Were you like that, or did you acquire your interests later in life?

The US Census has always been like porn to me.

I've gone through so many changes in my life it's (the correct one, lol) unreal. When I was a kid I was like that, but then when I started getting picked on in elementary school for being so gender non-conforming (I was a very effeminate kid, even if I still preferred all the boy toys) I kind-of sunk back into my shell. When I lived in New Mexico the school system was catered to the Mescalero Apache reservation, so it was horribly underfunded and so I fell really far behind the average kid nationally, especially considering I was pretty alone.

On the last day of 5th grade, I was stabbed in the back with a pen (it went like a good inch in) by another kid while he was screaming faggot, and so my parents decided to home school me. They weren't really prepared intellectually to teach me, with neither of them having college degrees, let alone catch me up from all the deficiencies of an underfunded Native-serving school system (my school books were from the 50s and 60s, which is typical of Native-serving systems). So... I fell further behind.

Somehow, don't ask me how, after we moved to Austin I passed the entrance exam to get into LASA (the magnet school in Austin). Yet again, I was bullied in the context of the LBJ local kids, and I never really got along well with the nerdier kids of the LASA crowd because I wasn't actually a nerd, geek, or whatever, just a normal kid who happened to be a really effeminate gay guy and the other gay guys in the school didn't like me because I was too effeminate (just for the straight people on the board, there's a huge problem in the gay community re: discrimination against fem guys)... So, I really didn't have any friends at all throughout high school and I didn't really excel at all in class. I think I graduated with a 2.3 GPA or something like that near the bottom of my class.


That all changed in college. I ended up having a lot of friends, doing well in class, etc. I graduated with a 3.6 GPA, got into a masters program where I graduated with a 3.9, and am now a Ph.D. student at USC (a top 10 program in one of my two subfields of political science).

The one thing I will say about myself, though, is that I have no self-confidence whatsoever in who I am, and I think that's a product of having been bullied consistently throughout my formative years for being so effeminate by straight people and having been told my entire life by other gay men that I'm too effeminate to ever stick around. A few days ago, actually, some really cute gay guy told my friend that I was "too gay to function," which really hurt. It sucks because I think I'm pretty attractive, and I'm intelligent which... should count for something, but for gay men it counts for very little sadly.

[Tech House]

Originally Posted by wwmiv

(my school books were from the 50s and 60s, which is typical of Native-serving systems)

I went to public school in Santa Barbara and we had books from the 60s, what's so bad about that? [oh yeah, it WAS the 60s!]

Originally Posted by wwmiv

The one thing I will say about myself, though, is that I have no self-confidence whatsoever in who I am, and I think that's a product of having been bullied consistently throughout my formative years for being so effeminate by straight people and having been told my entire life by other gay men that I'm too effeminate to ever stick around. A few days ago, actually, some really cute gay guy told my friend that I was "too gay to function," which really hurt. It sucks because I think I'm pretty attractive, and I'm intelligent which... should count for something, but for gay men it counts for very little sadly.

You've really had a rough go, and I can't even begin to imagine what it has been like. Such a wildly different journey from mine, although I can relate a tiny bit to being effeminate. However, in my case it was always referred to as being "sensitive" and that was considered a positive trait in the 1960s-70s in California. Luck of the draw, eh? My dad was mercilessly teased and bullied for being effeminate and sensitive. He was involved in theater and ballet, and didn't have the usual interests that boys have. He was also homophobic, so when he was informed by his theater mates, in his first year of college, that the director was grooming him to be his lover, he freaked out and switched to Journalism. This would have been during the Depression, mid-1930s.

Do you work with Azareus, i.e., did you work on those papers? What an incredibly important issue! Austin has been gerrymandered into oblivion, it's quite a remarkable feat the way it was done and it strikes me as being outright organized crime, except it's worse because it violates civil rights and the Constitution, in my histrionic opinion.

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by Tech House

I went to public school in Santa Barbara and we had books from the 60s, what's so bad about that? [oh yeah, it WAS the 60s!]

I graduate high school in '08 if that puts a time frame on it. LOL.

Originally Posted by Tech House

You've really had a rough go, and I can't even begin to imagine what it has been like. Such a wildly different journey from mine, although I can relate a tiny bit to being effeminate. However, in my case it was always referred to as being "sensitive" and that was considered a positive trait in the 1960s-70s in California. Luck of the draw, eh? My dad was mercilessly teased and bullied for being effeminate and sensitive. He was involved in theater and ballet, and didn't have the usual interests that boys have. He was also homophobic, so when he was informed by his theater mates, in his first year of college, that the director was grooming him to be his lover, he freaked out and switched to Journalism. This would have been during the Depression, mid-1930s.

I'm really effeminate. Like... on a scale of 1-10, a 9. I'm what's called a butchqueen, which means that although I'm like incredibly effeminate, I prefer to take on the traditionally masculine roles in my relationships.

Originally Posted by Tech House

Do you work with Azareus, i.e., did you work on those papers? What an incredibly important issue! Austin has been gerrymandered into oblivion, it's quite a remarkable feat the way it was done and it strikes me as being outright organized crime, except it's worse because it violates civil rights and the Constitution, in my histrionic opinion.

Nope. Also, political preference gerrymandering does not violate the constitution according to SCOTUS precedent. Racial preference gerrymandering, however, does.

[lzppjb]

The only feminine thing I do is get watery-eyed when I see the ol' Stars and Stripes waving in the wind.

[drummer]

^^ Ha, I was thinking about the Cowboys winning...I get watery-eyed at that. The idea of them getting past the first round in the playoffs...

Don't talk to me about the Longhorns right now, haha.

[lzppjb]

Oh, I definitely cried in the Rose Bowl when we won the Championship. I think that may have been the only time I've cried because I was overwhelmed with joy.

[_Matt]

Originally Posted by wwmiv

Here's some quick plots that I did:



Here you have all Texas metros and a simple line of best fit. ...

This would probably look good as a log-log plot. I don't have underlying data but it should be a pretty quick change if you are in Excel.

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by _Matt

This would probably look good as a log-log plot. I don't have underlying data but it should be a pretty quick change if you are in Excel.

I considered it, but... most people have a harder time understanding and interpreting transformed data, so I decided against it so that everyone here would understand more readily.

[Tech House]

Originally Posted by wwmiv

I'm really effeminate. Like... on a scale of 1-10, a 9. I'm what's called a butchqueen, which means that although I'm like incredibly effeminate, I prefer to take on the traditionally masculine roles in my relationships.

Forgive me for dipping into pop culture for a reference point, but what you describe sounds a lot like how I perceive Mitchell on MF. And I could easily imagine Mitchell composing comments that have a similar precision, tone, and flair to yours.Take it as a compliment, and for your sake I hope you're prettier. (oohhh, I'm being a mitch myself!)

About crying --- I cry easily when watching movies and TV shows, and the primary reasons are because I'm moved by the beauty of people being awesome, or by the suffering that others experience. I cry a lot out of inspiration and being moved by natural beauty and various meaningful moments. Can't say I've ever cried over a US flag, except perhaps the really momentous occasions such as the flag being planted on the moon or being waved by someone in another nation that's been through a war and we helped them out, that sort of thing. I've definitely cried about the Longhorns' greatest moments. And I can make myself cry within about 30 seconds just by thinking about 3 very precious beings whom I've lost.

I watch a lot of shows that are mainly of interest to teenage girls, such as The Fosters and Pretty Little Liars. And I used to watch a lot of Lifetime movies and children's movies such as the American Girl series. Those always made me cry. For about a year I was developing a YouTube promotion service that catered to girl tubers with beauty channels. I'm glad that didn't work out, I was really getting sick of watching makeup tutorials, room tours, morning routines, and shopping hauls. Girls are hella materialistic!

By the way, this is all apropos of the US Census. We're providing valuable demographic and psychographic information. Marketers pay through the nose for such detailed profiles!

[wwmiv]

Mitchell is masculine compared to me. I'm definitely more attractive than him, but he's not ugly at all!

[lzppjb]

Originally Posted by Tech House

I watch a lot of shows that are mainly of interest to teenage girls, such as The Fosters and Pretty Little Liars. And I used to watch a lot of Lifetime movies and children's movies such as the American Girl series. Those always made me cry.

lol I've never even heard of those shows. That's just how manly I am.

I do enjoy many of the Masterpiece shows, though. Really enjoyed that 3-part mini recently, Arthur and George. Can't wait for Endeavor and Sherlock to come back on.

Until then, more Blue Bloods and Criminal Minds.

[Jdawgboy]

Originally Posted by wwmiv

Somehow, don't ask me how, after we moved to Austin I passed the entrance exam to get into LASA (the magnet school in Austin). Yet again, I was bullied in the context of the LBJ local kids, and I never really got along well with the nerdier kids of the LASA crowd because I wasn't actually a nerd, geek, or whatever, just a normal kid who happened to be a really effeminate gay guy and the other gay guys in the school didn't like me because I was too effeminate (just for the straight people on the board, there's a huge problem in the gay community re: discrimination against fem guys)... So, I really didn't have any friends at all throughout high school and I didn't really excel at all in class. I think I graduated with a 2.3 GPA or something like that near the bottom of my class.

Wow that must have sucked, sorry to hear that. I didn't really have much of an issue being openly gay at Travis High. There were actually quite a few gay people there during the mid to late 90s including drag queens who were taking hormones and growing breasts. There was one really fem cheer leader who graduated my 10th grade year (95-96) who was very popular. Generally everyone kept to their own business. There were fights of course every day and violent ones at that, Travis being heavily inner city, but these had more to do with specific issues like if they already had a problem with eachother and less with generalized bullying although don't get me wrong there was bullying. I doubt you can find any school anywhere that is completely bully free but it seemed more isolated or hidden behind the scenes. There was an occasional lone kid who would try to pick on me but I'd ignore them and they quickly stopped realizing it was pointless or found someone else to pick on who reacted to them. They feed on the reaction knowing they have control over their victim, if you don't give them the satisfaction then they move on. All in all highschool was pretty cool. I figured inner city schools were different than the more suburban schools but after hearing your story maybe it depended on the school.


Anywho sorry for getting off in a tangent but wanted to chime in.

This just came out but it's kinda confusing, not sure if these numbers are from this company or if they got them from the census because they don't really match what we have been seeing. I've seen articles showing we were 5th for overall population growth but maybe that was just from 13 to 14.

http://info.siteselectiongroup.com/b...n=Location+Adv

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by lzppjb

lol I've never even heard of those shows. That's just how manly I am.

I do enjoy many of the Masterpiece shows, though. Really enjoyed that 3-part mini recently, Arthur and George. Can't wait for Endeavor and Sherlock to come back on.

Until then, more Blue Bloods and Criminal Minds.

So now we're way off topic, but you should check out Longmire on Netflix.

[Spaceman]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

So now we're way off topic, but you should check out Longmire on Netflix.

A/E cancelled Longmire not because of low ratings(6.5 million) but they didn't like the average age of the viewers. Dumb move
The show is actually produced in New Mexico...I spend some time in NM so I see many familiar places

[Novacek]

Originally Posted by Jdawgboy

This just came out but it's kinda confusing, not sure if these numbers are from this company or if they got them from the census because they don't really match what we have been seeing. I've seen articles showing we were 5th for overall population growth but maybe that was just from 13 to 14.

http://info.siteselectiongroup.com/b...n=Location+Adv

That list is by absolute numbers, not percentages. Plus, the census hasn't released 2015 estimates (the last release was 2014 estimates) so those must be from some other source.

Actually, some of those numbers look totally off. Over half a million in growth for Charlotte?

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by Spaceman

A/E cancelled Longmire not because of low ratings(6.5 million) but they didn't like the average age of the viewers. Dumb move
The show is actually produced in New Mexico...I spend some time in NM so I see many familiar places

Netflix picked it up and completed a 4th season. I don't know if they're planning a 5th one or not. I don't usually like cop shows, but I love investigative type stuff like Longmire and Bones.

http://deadline.com/2014/11/netflix-...re-1201289364/