Fun with maps

[gh]

a literary gem: best book for every state

http://www.bkmag.com/2014/10/15/the-literary-united-states-a-map-of-the-best-book-for-every-state/

[Atticus]

a literary gem: best book for every state
http://www.bkmag.com/2014/10/15/the-...r-every-state/

Florida may only be my adopted state, but I am very proud that ZNH represents us. This is one beautiful passage!:

FLORIDA: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston: “She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.”

[TN1965]

ACA: Who Was Helped Most.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/29/upshot/obamacare-who-was-helped-most.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0

[26mi235]

So Faulkner did not get Mississippi right? I am not the true literary sort, but Atticus, can you explain that one to me? Across the border that got To Kill a Mockingbird.

[TN1965]

The Places in America Where College Football Means the Most

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/upshot/the-places-in-america-where-college-football-means-the-most.html?ref=sports&_r=3&abt=0002&abg=0

[Atticus]

So Faulkner did not get Mississippi right? I am not the true literary sort, but Atticus, can you explain that one to me? Across the border that got To Kill a Mockingbird.

Kiese Laymon's Long Division over Faulkner?!

Maybe if you exclude

The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying
Light in August
Absalom, Absalom!
The Unvanquished
Intruder in the Dust
The Reivers

[tandfman]

What European countries are worst at:

https://s.yimg.com/cd/resizer/2.0/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w500/2056091a7ae6b4ff75897bba07396b7867f4e812.jpg

[Powell]

Denmark sound like a pretty good country to live in if the worst thing about it that they could come up with is fewest Zaras per capita

[tandfman]

What's your favorite burger chain?

https://s.yimg.com/cd/resizer/2.0/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w500/9e73277310634804b991826164376227ab731acc.jpg

[Atticus]

Five Guys!!!

[gh]

The happiest countries

http://time.com/3594543/happiest-countries-maps-costa-rica/

[tandfman]

The booziest states:

https://s.yimg.com/cd/resizer/2.0/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w500/538f4c741d740f03ebe8d51e23e43008f4cbac15.jpg

Related article:

https://www.yahoo.com/food/whats-americas-booziest-state-we-ranked-them-50-to-102981074676.html

[26mi235]

The Places in America Where College Football Means the Most

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/up...abt=0002&abg=0

Looking at the map and how purple Nebraska is, I am guessing that this was taken before last Saturday's game with Wisconsin, or at least before the second quarter got going...

[xw]

The happiest countries

http://time.com/3594543/happiest-cou...ps-costa-rica/

These maps, created by MoveHub, show the happiness level of each country across the globe. The HPI is calculated using “global data on life expectancy, experienced well-being and Ecological Footprint.” It’s an “efficiency measure,” ranking countries on “how many long and happy lives they produce per unit of environmental input.”

I'm not sure I understand what this index actually means here. People in the US are gloomiers than Indians on average how? Because they have a much larger demoninator of environmental input and why exactly it should affect subjective individual happiness?

[wamego relays champ]

A scan through this thread did not find this map of NFL Fandom, published in September.

As some have noted, Facebook "likes" may not have the statistical randomness required for a scientific conclusion, but it certainly is a very large sample and perhaps as good as one can get with county-level data.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/the-geography-of-nfl-fandom/379729/?utm_source=taboola