The Maps and Geography Thread

[beefytee]

Most common job in each state

http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/gr...itialWidth=800

[Clark Addison]

I wonder why they measure median instead of mean household income?

median is usually the way to go in data with a long tail. You use the mean and lots of these counties would have mean incomes that only 5% of the population exceed.

[Clark Addison]

And which side of the median are you on?

It's a southern state though. I'm probably still below the CS median.

[creekster]

I live in one of those.

And which side of the median are you on?

[Northwestcoug]

What surprises me most about the map is the lowness of some of the numbers. There is no town in Vermont with a median income of at least $79K? Nebraska at $77K I can understand, but Rhode Island at $84? Even Oregon at $107 seems low.

Vermont I get. A bunch of sleepy towns who love Bernie Sanders. But I'm surprised at Rhode Island also, at least the southern part. I assumed that Newport and other popular shoreline communities would have a higher median income.

[Pelado]

I wonder why they measure median instead of mean household income?

Not everyone is a big fat meanie. The median is friendlier.

[BigFatMeanie]

I wonder why they measure median instead of mean household income?

[Clark Addison]

What surprises me most about the map is the lowness of some of the numbers. There is no town in Vermont with a median income of at least $79K? Nebraska at $77K I can understand, but Rhode Island at $84? Even Oregon at $107 seems low.

[Northwestcoug]

The town with the highest median household income (with at least 1,000 residents) in each state:




http://mentalfloss.com/article/58873...fluenttown_ppc

LOL at the false humility of the snobs in Hidden Hills and Chevy Chase. We get it; you're rich. You don't have to be vague at '>$250,000'.

[Clark Addison]

The town with the highest median household income (with at least 1,000 residents) in each state:




http://mentalfloss.com/article/58873...fluenttown_ppc

I live in one of those.

[Pelado]

The town with the highest median household income (with at least 1,000 residents) in each state:




http://mentalfloss.com/article/58873...fluenttown_ppc

[wuapinmon]

Many times while backpacking in the Wind Rivers, Bighorns, and on trips to Jackson Hole and Yellowstone. While driving across Wyoming on I-80, not so much. But Wyoming is an improvement over Nebraska on the trek.

I see you've never been to west Kansas/eastern Colorado.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Has that phrase ever been written or uttered before?

You shut your whore mouth! #missyoupoke

[Northwestcoug]

Has that phrase ever been written or uttered before?

I lived in southern Wyoming for 7 years. On charitable days I will agree with PBW that the northwestern half of Wyoming can be beautiful. But the despair that living in Wyoming carved into my soul is not easy to forget, or forgive.

[Paperback Writer]

Has that phrase ever been written or uttered before?

Many times while backpacking in the Wind Rivers, Bighorns, and on trips to Jackson Hole and Yellowstone. While driving across Wyoming on I-80, not so much. But Wyoming is an improvement over Nebraska on the trek.