Maps. All the maps.

[MaxQue]

Dogwood?

Cornouiller, in French. It's a tree, very common in the southeast.

[Mr. Illini]

The United States of Baseball, with county-level and zip code-level data on Facebook likes. Amazing map.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/24/upshot/facebook-baseball-map.html#4,39.445,-94.657

[Nutmeg]

The United States of Baseball, with county-level and zip code-level data on Facebook likes. Amazing map.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/24/upshot/facebook-baseball-map.html#4,39.445,-94.657

Great map. Lots of interesting quirks. Among those that stand out to me:

- Why all the Red Sox support in Utah, of all places?

- I guess the Yankees are the default option when there's no other team nearby? As the Cowboys were on the football map? Seems to be the case for Virginia, North Carolina, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Montana, and the rest of Utah. But Florida's Yankeeism would seem to be a separate issue.

- The relative lack of Braves support in metro Atlanta is one. Much of Georgia likes the Atlanta Braves more than Atlanta does.

- Other than teams like the Mets that don't enjoy plurality support in even one county, the Nats seem to have the most lukewarm fan base - the highest percentage support I see for them is 34% in one county. Diamondbacks aren't a whole lot better.

[RI]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=186900.msg4571697#msg4571697

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Excuse the touchiness of the subject, but I think it's an interesting map so long as discussion doesn't get sidetracked: Use of the n-word in Google searches by media market. (Times when it was deemed "OK" to use it were not included.) Obviously most of it is expected, but the U.P. seemed obscure to me. At least we know where all the racists are.

[Boston Bread]

^seriously, Appalachia?

[NewYorkExpress]

The Top Ten Countries spending the most on Console and Video Games (as of 2006)

[Joe Republic]

[Thomas D]

HIV? Florida? Really?

[tik 🪀✨]

After normal age related illnesses, a primarily sexually transmitted disease isn't too surprising I guess. I'm most surprised by Louisiana, though..  in a similar vein.

[Joe Republic]

Alabama and Tennessee aren't surprising.  If anything I'm surprised it isn't the case for more Southern states.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Black Lung in coal country!! Say it ain't so, Joe!

[Boston Bread]

How does one die from legal intervention?
Should legal intervention be banned and become illegal intervention then

[traininthedistance]

How does one die from legal intervention?
Should legal intervention be banned and become illegal intervention then

I assume that "legal intervention" is a euphemism for "pulling the plug" (which, I guess, is itself a euphemism).

[Linus Van Pelt]

How does one die from legal intervention?
Should legal intervention be banned and become illegal intervention then

I assume that "legal intervention" is a euphemism for "pulling the plug" (which, I guess, is itself a euphemism).

No, it's a euphemism for "killed by the police".

[7,052,770]

I wish they'd be more specific than "other and unspecified malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue" ...

[pbrower2a]

I was actually expecting to see Apple at the top in California and Microsoft in Washington.

I was expecting to see either Kroger or Procter&Gamble in Ohio, Coca-Cola in Georgia, Cummins in Indiana... except that foreign subsidiaries are not recognized, Anheuser-Busch in Missouri. Kraft Foods in Pennsylvania.

The US Postal Service likely is the biggest "company" in the District of Columbia.

So many hospitals and banks!

...It's telling about Nevada that Sands is the biggest "player" in the economy.

[Oak Hills]

What does "most distinctive causes of death" even mean?

[Bacon King]

I wish they'd be more specific than "other and unspecified malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue" ...

that is so much more specific than "abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified"

is it patients with rare diseases and disorders that they try to treat at the CDC, I guess?

What does "most distinctive causes of death" even mean?

the most disproportionately common in that state compared to how common it is in all other states

[pbrower2a]

'Which countries have the worst record for human trafficking?'

If you want to know whether a national statistic is good or bad, just see which side applies to North Korea and which side applies to South Korea.

[SWE]

'Which countries have the worst record for human trafficking?'

If you want to know whether a national statistic is good or bad, just see which side applies to North Korea and which side applies to South Korea.

I don't think you need a test like that to tell if human trafficking is good or bad.

[Bacon King]

click to embiggen. slightly outdated.

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'Which countries have the worst record for human trafficking?'

If you want to know whether a national statistic is good or bad, just see which side applies to North Korea and which side applies to South Korea.

Not always. Greenhouse gas emissions per capita.

[Bacon King]

[retromike22]

click to embiggen. slightly outdated.

The fact that the Civic Platform/Law and Justice border in Poland corresponds with the Germany Pre WWII/Polish border fascinates me.