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Would it help to provide more information by adding edge weight as the length of the shared border between the two states?
by jnurmine 6y ago
Would it help to provide more information by adding edge weight as the length of the shared border between the two states?
- ape4 6y agoWeighted by distance between capitals perhaps.
- jnurmine 6y agoHmm, good idea. Or weighted by distance between midpoint of state? The idea being that, to my knowledge, the state capitals are not in the middle always, thus leading to some form of distortion.
- Someone 6y agoCapitals can be very much eccentric in a state (the distance from Cheyenne, Wyoming to Helena, Montana is (eyeballing) about three times that to Denver, Colorado, for example, but I would say Wyoming borders Montana about as much as it borders Colorado) Average distance of all pairs of points in the two states (hm, maybe not. That could behave weirdly for states that aren’t very ‘compact’) or geometric mean of the fraction of a state’s border shared with the neighboring state would be fairer. Or maybe, the geometric mean of the fraction of the area of State S is closest to state T and the fraction of the area of state T that is closest to S? Alternatively, make the states clusters, add all cities on highways as vertices, and use highways stretches between cities as edges.
- spc476 6y agoByte Magazine had an article in 1986 that drew the US based on distances between cities. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-08/page/n103/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-08/page/n103/...