How to split up the US
Very interesting analysis of 210 million public Facebook profile pages.
Explanation:
As I've been digging deeper into the data I've gathered on 210 million public Facebook profiles, I've been fascinated by some of the patterns that have emerged. My latest visualization shows the information by location, with connections drawn between places that share friends. For example, a lot of people in LA have friends in San Francisco, so there's a line between them.
Example:
Nomadic West: The defining feature of this area is how likely even small towns are to be strongly connected to distant cities, it looks like the inhabitants have done a lot of moving around the county. For example, Boise, ID, Bend, OR and Phoenix, AZ all have much wider connections than you'd expect for towns their size [...] Starbucks is almost always the top fan page, maybe to help people stay awake on all those long car trips they must be making?
9 February 2010 03:46pm UTC • 100 views • 1 comment
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The Anonymous Poppy
11 February 2010 02:54am UTC
So interesting!
It's worth separating from the rest of the West because of how interwoven the communities are, and how relatively unlikely they are to have friends outside the region.
This is easily one of the top three reasons I will never live in Utah or Idaho. It's also a nice way of phrasing an issue that I've always just sort of felt instinctively but never really assigned words to.