The New York Times has done several excellent multimedia projects on the census, including one about a town in North Dakota which expects to have a 100 percent response rate and another about a Florida town that was severely undercounted in 2000. However, one project posted on April 1 is particularly creative.
It mixes text, photo slideshows and maps for a random census of the five boroughs of New York City. Reporters visited key gathering points in each borough and observed what happened as people interacted there over periods ranging from 20 minutes to an hour.
All five slideshows are excellent and give insights into each borough's daily routine, showing New Yorkers as they play basketball, walk their pet rabbits and try to make it in show business. The statistics assembled by the reporters range from the entertaining ("3: People in line who talked on cellphones in front of a sign asking them not to") to the mundane ("8: People playing badminton") and the revealing ("60: Minutes a 27-year-old vocalist stared out a window 'contemplating my next move.'").
You can find the project here.
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