• Ape550@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This would be interesting to see without Alaska or Hawaii skewing the centers west.

    Alternatively, I would be really interested to see this done for France if it includes Tahiti 😂

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    This is incorrect. Each HALF is 1/2 the population. So the northern half have as many people as the southern half, and the eastern half has as many people as the western half.

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        Not necessarily. For example north east could have 3 people, north west 4 people, south west 3 people, and south east 4 people.

        North and south each have 7 people, east and west both have 7, but the 4 quarters aren’t equal.

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      It’s easier for me to visualize it as posted, with an x and y axis. The presentation gets the data across without having to show it as a heat map, clusters, etc. I once tried to explain excitedly to someone that I had just learned that the center of the US as a landmass is in South Dakota. I wish I’d had this map at the time.

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    Fascinating. Would love to see a series of these done for other countries.

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    Fascinating. I had no idea I lived so close to the MEAN center of population. It makes me feel important in my town of 9,000.