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But if you don't normalize by population, you just end up with a map of the most populous locations instead of a map of the highest popularity
by thomashusa 10y ago
But if you don't normalize by population, you just end up with a map of the most populous locations instead of a map of the highest popularity
- evgen 10y agoI think you don't understand what that word 'popularity' means...
- gmu3 10y agoI guess you don't believe something can be popular in a small community.
- evgen 10y agoIt can be, that doesn't make it popular in general. Duck Dynasty has zero viewers in my living room, does that make it an unpopular show? Having a small number of absolute fans in isolated clumps does not make something popular unless you specifically scope the definition to make it appear so.
- hellogoodbyeeee 10y agoI think some HN commenters are having issue with how the map legend is labeled. The key labels darker colors as 'more fans' when they mean 'larger fraction of fans'. I think NYT chose the right methodology, they just got lazy with the labeling.