OZEAN MEDIA | Strategic Public Affairs
I was looking for a data-set this morning for a GIS project, and I thought the data would be relatively easy to find. It wasn’t.
I did find what I wanted in one case, but someone was charging $199 for the data.
So, I spent a couple of hours researching, compiling and cleaning data.
I offer it to you for free and in the name of political analysis. Enjoy!
Data Set: TV DMAs by Counties – USA.
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