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- Exercise 1: Poverty Data for Places
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- Exercise 1: Poverty Data for Places (ACS 2006)
- Exercise 2: Vacancy data for Cleveland census tracts (Census 2000)
- Exercise 3: Median Income data for zip codes (Census 2000)
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From 2009 Workshop
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