The Ledger

Charlotte handled money rather than making it, and this is its graph kept the way Banktown would keep it: as a ruled book. Pick a page — districts against categories, the district adjacencies, people against places — and every derived connection becomes one stamped entry in a matrix, counted and totalled. Same dataset, same numbers as the spring graph; a different way of seeing where the weight sits.

Rows and columns are ordered by computation — a barycenter seriation that pulls connected blocks together — not alphabetically, so the clusters you see are the data's, not the alphabet's. Derived from 696 nodes · 3,153 connections.

PLATE IV — THE LEDGER

Every connection in the graph, ruled and counted

rows × columns
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Read this figure as text
What each district offers22 rows × 25columns, in the plate's computed (seriated) order. Empty cells are pairs with no derived connection.
Districts \ CategoriesTakeout & Grab-and-GoParkCoffeeWorshipSit-Down DiningLive musicLandmarkNightlifeHistoricalBreakfastShoppingGreenway accessActivityBreweriesClubs & LeaguesMuseumsBowlingPlaces to StayEscape RoomsSports venuesFishing AccessMini GolfBike RentalLake accessBeach AccessΣ
Historic West End1111111119
Dilworth111111111110
North Charlotte111111111110
Fourth Ward111111111110
Wesley Heights111111111110
Elizabeth1111111111111
West Charlotte1111111111111
Matthews & Mint Hill1111111111111
NoDa1111111111111114
Plaza Midwood11111111111112
East Charlotte111111111110
First Ward1111111111111
Second Ward111111111110
Camp North End111111118
Myers Park1111111111111
University City1111111111111
Third Ward1111111111111
LoSo & South Boulevard1111111111111
SouthPark11111111111111115
South End1111111111111114
Steele Creek & Whitewater1111111111111114
Day-trips ring1111111111111114
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Drawn from 696 derived nodes · 3,153 derived connections · 248 entries stamped on the open page · corrections invitedRows and columns are ordered by computation (barycenter seriation), not alphabetically — lines that share connections sit together.