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Frostwerks posted:While I like the idea of representing this with a color gradient, I don't really think that there is enough variation in tones to easily make out I believe that map is from 1963, so probably was entirely handmade.
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Irradiation posted:Pretty much any school with a reasonably sized research reactor is on there. Weird that Penn State isn't on there then given that they've had a reactor since the 50s.
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Pretty drat obscure, but have a guess.
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Aug 7, 2015 16:19
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Greener states.
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sweek0 posted:Pretty drat obscure, but have a guess. rear end in a top hat drivers per square mile?
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sweek0 posted:Pretty drat obscure, but have a guess. most liked of the first 8 Fibonacci numbers?
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sweek0 posted:Pretty drat obscure, but have a guess. Patriots fans.
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sweek0 posted:Pretty drat obscure, but have a guess. Doctors per capita?
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Aug 7, 2015 16:55
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Kurtofan was kind of right, it's the percent of total land area covered by turf grass, per state. From: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...f-without-them/ In more detail: 
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Vorpal Cat posted:rear end in a top hat drivers per square mile? Living in MA that was going to be me guess too. Not surprised by the reality though. Vegetation is all around here.
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OptimusShr posted:Living in MA that was going to be me guess too. Also New Jersey being the darkest shade, Maryland was a toss up but it seemed believable.
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:The fact that there's a major university there probably doesn't hurt, just eyeballing it there are a lot of college towns on the map. You can see Missouri, Michigan, UIUC, Purdue, VA Tech, TX Tech all pretty easily and I assume plenty more of the remotely located triangles are major and/or largely technical schools as well. As far as Virginia Tech goes, there's a huge rear end military arsenal and former weapons factory right nearby too, like 7 miles from the school
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OptimusShr posted:Living in MA that was going to be me guess too. Not just vegetation. Turf grass: better known as lawns. As his second map showed It's essentially a population density map hidden because they used state borders exclusively.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Not just vegetation. Turf grass: better known as lawns. As his second map showed It's essentially a population density map hidden because they used state borders exclusively. Not really. There's a lot less lawns in cities.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Not really. There's a lot less lawns in cities. There are a lot more suburbs around cities, though.
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b0lt posted:There are a lot more suburbs around cities, though. Which are usually significantly lower population density. And when they ain't, they tend to also have a lot less lawns for the same reason the cities do.
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So, sort of a cross between distribution_of_suburbs.jpg and us_rainfall.jpg? I can see it. It helps that urban areas are already disproportionately in areas with actual water, with the notable exception of California.
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It's a map of golf courses, which is why Phoenix is green.
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sweek0 posted:Pretty drat obscure, but have a guess. Actually, looking it up it's pretty darn similar. How useless. Isn't that one of the most basic rules of map making? The more your map resembles a population density map, the more pointless it is. Per capita is almost always more meaningful for indicating... anything. By comparing the maps I can see New Hampshire likes their lawns, and the west in general can't support as much as the east (no surprise)... but I couldn't tell that from the original map alone. Edit: Though I suppose if you just straight up did it per capita you'd end up with a map that mostly indicates how concentrated a state's population is, considering most of the discrepancies I can see are probably to do with urban centers increasing population density without increasing lawns. I mean, besides the obvious "the west is dry" thing going on. Oh well. I guess shading in whole states is a pretty bad system to use in general. Eiba fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Aug 8, 2015 |
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Live updated map of London twitter users complaining about the tube/Underground. http://tubestrike.impero.wtf/
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Shameful Romania, does Mittel Europa mean nothing to you?
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Interesting level for Russian in the Baltic states, I wonder if German is catching up. Also Romanians have always loved the French.
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So is the first most useful language for everyone in the EU considered to be English, or what?
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German is a foreign language in Luxemburg? I wonder if Swedish is considered a non-foreign language in Finland. That'd explain Russian's 2nd place, putting English at the most useful foreign language. Edit: Heh, French is a foreign language in Belgium?
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Also the Irish not forgetting their glorious alliance with the Third Reich.
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Carbon dioxide posted:German is a foreign language in Luxemburg? Swedish is one of the two official languages so yeah. And even if it wasn't, people wouldn't consider it more useful than English or Russian.
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I can't believe the UK said Spanish over Also yeah German should be the language preferred by the French rather than Spanish, but learning German is too hard apparently.
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Cyprus's answer is unexpected.Kurtofan posted:I can't believe the UK said Spanish over I'm guessing that the islanders, being mostly anglophone themselves consider French the most useful foreign language but disagree on second place (the discrepancy is strange, though). Also, it is a bit surprising that Spanish is more popular than Italian in France. Any particular reason that might be? Kopijeger fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Aug 9, 2015 |
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Carbon dioxide posted:Edit: Heh, French is a foreign language in Belgium? With this sort of map it pretty much never makes sense to use Belgium as a single unit. Kurtofan posted:I can't believe the UK said Spanish over We don't know what the first foreign language is in the UK and Ireland. e: ok now we do
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jakubmarian.com posted:The map of the language voted second most useful (see below) turns out to be much more interesting. In Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, and Portugal, more people actually chose the option “none / no other language” than the language shown in the map. Note that the caption “French” for Belgium is to be understood as the foreign language of choice of the Dutch speaking part of Belgium. Really? That many people think foreign languages other than English are worthless? Edit: the survey quoted contains some interesting information: quote:Almost all respondents in Luxembourg (98%), Latvia (95%), the Netherlands (94%), Malta (93%), Slovenia and Lithuania (92% each), and Sweden (91%) say that they are able to speak at least one language in Kopijeger fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Aug 9, 2015 |
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Antti posted:Swedish is one of the two official languages so yeah. And even if it wasn't, people wouldn't consider it more useful than English or Russian. Actually it seems that the question was: "Thinking about languages other than your mother tongue, which two languages do you think are the most useful for your personal development?" So Finns could have answered Swedish but it wasn't among the suggested languages and only 1% chose "Other".  Source: http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb_special_399_380_en.htm (EB77.1)
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Carbon dioxide posted:German is a foreign language in Luxemburg? I take it they're not excluding all a country's official languages, just whatever individuals say is the second useful that's foreign to them specifically. So nearly all the Flemish are saying "French" while the Wallonians' answers are more varied. Lycus fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Aug 9, 2015 |
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Kopijeger posted:Really? That many people think foreign languages other than English are worthless? I mean. how many people in England, for instance, think that a second foreign language is useful? They may claim otherwise, but in my time studying at a British University, I mainly met people who admitted to have no interest learning anything besides French or Spanish. And even their first second language would usually be kinda atavistic.
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Phlegmish posted:it...never makes sense to use Belgium as a single unit. Kopijeger posted:Also, it is a bit surprising that Spanish is more popular than Italian in France. Any particular reason that might be?
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Kopijeger posted:Also, it is a bit surprising that Spanish is more popular than Italian in France. Any particular reason that might be? Presumably because Italian is only spoke in Italy, while Spanish is a global language.
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steinrokkan posted:Presumably because Italian is only spoke in Italy, while Spanish is a global language. if only Columbus hadn't abandoned the glorious Republic of Genoa 
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Spanish is perceived as more useful since it is a major world language, whereas Italian is limited to Italy. That was one of the things that motivated me to start learning it a few years ago. And even though it's actually useless to me professionally, in terms of 'personal development' I certainly don't regret it. Next on the list is German.
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