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https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/

• mason55 10y ago
  I don't think that really applies here. For example in NYC you have almost no white collar crime in Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx but you do have hotspots up in Stamford and Greenwich where there are many fewer people. If you zoom all the way out, sure, it's just a population heat map, but this is intended to be (a satire of) a neighborhood-level map.
  • pulisse 10y ago
    Impressively, it's even picking up some block-level data. Notice the hotspot near Court Square in Long Island City: that's a Citibank tower.
• Animats 10y ago
  I thought of that too. Compare the US population density map [1] with the white collar crime map, zoomed out. On the national scale, they match moderately well. There are interesting hotspots. Etsy HQ in Brooklyn is one. [1] https://www2.census.gov/geo/img/maps-data/maps/density80.gif https://www2.census.gov/geo/img/maps-data/maps/density80.gif
  • Bartweiss 10y ago
    Yeah, all the value here seems to be at city level zoom. Which makes some sense, since it's parodying neighborhood crime maps.
• jrockway 10y ago
  I zoomed out and immediately thought it looked like this, prepared this link by putting it in my copy buffer... and it's the only top-level comment here :) But actually, looking at New York it's more of a "daytime" population density map than a "nighttime" population density map, which is what I think the XKCD one would be. So I guess people are committing their white collar crimes at work, at least in New York.