165M Jobs - Mapped One Dot at a Time
If you zoom in on Las Vegas on the 165M US Jobs by Sector map you probably won't be surprised to discover that huge numbers of people in the city work in the Accommodation and Food sector, servicing the millions of tourists who visit Las Vegas every year. Kyle Walker's new interactive map, 165M US Jobs by Sector, visualizes the geographic distribution of jobs across the United States using a massive dot-density map. Every dot on the map represents jobs from one of twenty major employment sectors, from Agriculture and Manufacturing to Healthcare and Public Administration. The map is built using vector tiles and MapLibre GL, allowing users to smoothly zoom from a national overview down to neighborhood-level patterns. As you zoom in, the map dynamically increases the level of detail, revealing how different industries cluster in different parts of the country. Manufacturing jobs form dense corridors around the Great Lakes, energy extraction dominates parts of Texas and the Mount...
