Why am I always looking at a map of where people live?
7The map for "Who's buying this crap?" just tells me that everyone lives in CA, NY, TX, and FL every damn day. It is useless. If you divide the quantities sold in each state by their populations, I might actually care about that part of the homepage.
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Noted.
Are you aware that you can click on any state to see a beakdown of relative sales by county? I find it interesting to see what's happening within my state and also how that compares to the country as a whole.
@gio that map still has the same problem.
@gio OK I'm officially taking this too far - I found the population by county so meh can break it down by county too. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lWhCm5l9YRmOM13gDCukM9vakpMvYO3RZf0xAu7IZPM/edit?usp=sharing
That's like, totally profound, man.
I like, live where I am, like every damn day, too.
for someone with a username of @whocaresanyway, i find it ironic you would start a thread like this.
@carl669 Yea I only made the account to post this. I know it's not a big deal, but as a guy that does population analysis for a living - it grinds my gears
What would the benefit be to basing it on population ratio? Quantity is what matters.
What would you rather sell...2 items to a group of 100 or 15 items to a group of 1,000?
This is assuming your cost of selling are irrelevant to the number of potential customers, which in Meh's case is essentially ture.
@MrMark Without a per-capita map, every map is a population density map. http://xkcd.com/1138/
@pwinn
@pwinn That's only true if an item appeals to all regions/lifestyles equally. However in this case a per capita map would essentially be every state the same color. Which would be even more boring.
@MrMark No, you have that backward. If any item appeals to all regions equally, you get a perfect population map. If it varies a bit, you get a slightly skewed population map. Do you know how to tell the difference? It all looks like a population map. If you do it per-capita, then if one state is darker than another, you can say Aha, this item appealed to that state more than the other, without having to first do the math and say wait, did they sell more to that state because more people live there, or...
@pwinn This guy gets it
But since they only use about 4 shades, it's really more of which states/counties have checked in -- with just a little bit of how hard did they bite. People in North Dakota seem to have a lot more self control than the rest of us.