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If you look at the Boston map, there is one zone just outside route 128 near Lexington that consistently contrasts with its neighbors. That's Hanscom Air Force
by pingswept 17y ago
If you look at the Boston map, there is one zone just outside route 128 near Lexington that consistently contrasts with its neighbors. That's Hanscom Air Force Base. It's particularly stark with the movie "Milk."
The other areas of sharp contrast I noticed are Mattapan and Lynn. Interesting stuff.
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoGreat observation. Didn't expect twilight is the top movie in an airforce base!
- blasdel 17y agoThey are plenty of women in the Airforce, members often have families with children, and the Airforce skews strongly towards Evangelical Christianity.
- breck 17y agoBoth of the "Tyler Perry" movies (3/4 toward the Least Rented side), also show a sharp contrast along racial demographic lines. All in all, a very interesting visualization. This stuff redeems my love for the NYTimes.
- psadauskas 17y agoSame thing if you pick Denver, and pan NW slightly to see Boulder. Denver and Boulder are complete inverses.
- elblanco 17y agoI noticed a similar, but exactly opposite trend with Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
- fuzzmeister 17y agoIt's amazing to see the socioeconomic divide at play in this area (I'm from Concord). If you look just northeast of Hanscom on the map for Milk, you'll see a sharp dividing line between the richer towns of Carlisle, Bedford and Lexington and the more working-class towns of Billerica, Tewksbury and Dracut.