The Venice Housing Gap

As announced in a prior blog entry, the "Living in Venice" team (actually Stephanie Miskell to give credit where it's really due) has developed the first fully functioning and meaningful "motion chart" (formerly known as gapminder, before being bought by Google). The chart below is fully interactive, albeit constricted by the small space available in the blog. You can find a full-size version in our wiki.  You should select an X and Y parameter to display (try for ex. Population vs. % of Homes occupied by non-residents).  Then click on the 3 symbols on the chart so that you can see the labels and activate the trails. Then press play on the timeline below to see the actual and predicted data for historical Venice, Mestre (and the mainland) and the Lido (and islands) from 1951 to 2050.  You'll notice some very interesting trends!  More to come as the 3 Quality of Life groups continue to collect useful statistics...