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It's also kind of sad that that's novel... The heat map is good, too.

• gojomo 18y ago
  The heat map is good, too. It's pretty, but quite a bit unclear. There's no legend, for example -- do the red areas or the yellow areas have the highest per-capita startup rates? Since even the article is talking about small cities, and the cities on the map tend to be redder dots, I'll assume redder means more startups per capita. Still, what does the map tell us? It seems a little surprising that the big open-spaces counties of the west, especially around Idaho, Wyoming, and Vegas/Northern Arizona are so red. But we can't be sure this isn't an artifact of their shading choices. An eastern city-plus-surrounding-counties might hide all its 'red' in a tiny dot, making its region look yellower than a western county, when the eastern rate over the same total area is actually higher, and even no more concentrated. (It just looks that way because of the smaller counties.)