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Doesn't work outside the US sadly.
by jstanley
Is this supposed to mean that 100k people live in each slice of the pie? Counting up slices and comparing to my metro statistical area population, that about works out.
by efficax
That is a cool visualization.
Punched in my grandparents' town and a bunch of the slices stretched 1500km over three states away. A lot of the US is big and empty.
by dmoy
Really cool. Makes me wonder where the most remote point in the contiguous U.S. is by this metric.
by sebmellen
I live in the one of the densest parts of lower Manhattan, and often explain that when I take a walk around the neighborhood, I pass 100,000+ people.
This map pretty much proves it!
by asah
That seems like the distance to go from having 100k people in front of you to having 100k people behind you. The distance you'd have to go to run into them properly would depend critically on the width of the vehicle you're in. With about 30k people running the Boston marathon and 60k people running the NY marathon, if you can source a vehicle wide enough to cover the course, it seems like you could pull it off in just a bit over 52.4 miles... assuming that the bodies didn't produce enough drag to slow you down so much that runners were managing to stay ahead of you on the course. (And assuming that marathon runners prioritize completion of the course over running sideways away from obvious danger, but they're marathon runners, that seems like a safe assumption.)
by addaon
Is this resident population or ambient?
I've been building a UK-wide 24-hour population dataset lately, and it's really opened my eyes to how much population data is best-guess-estimate - including census figures - and quite how difficult it is to say with any certainly how many people "touched" a location on any given day.
by mootothemax
Would be cool to be able to change the width/angle of the petal
by teling
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- Hacker News
- Doesn't work outside the US sadly.by jstanley
- Is this supposed to mean that 100k people live in each slice of the pie? Counting up slices and comparing to my metro statistical area population, that about works out.by efficax
- That is a cool visualization.
Punched in my grandparents' town and a bunch of the slices stretched 1500km over three states away. A lot of the US is big and empty.
by dmoy - Really cool. Makes me wonder where the most remote point in the contiguous U.S. is by this metric.by sebmellen
- I live in the one of the densest parts of lower Manhattan, and often explain that when I take a walk around the neighborhood, I pass 100,000+ people.
This map pretty much proves it!
by asah - That seems like the distance to go from having 100k people in front of you to having 100k people behind you. The distance you'd have to go to run into them properly would depend critically on the width of the vehicle you're in. With about 30k people running the Boston marathon and 60k people running the NY marathon, if you can source a vehicle wide enough to cover the course, it seems like you could pull it off in just a bit over 52.4 miles... assuming that the bodies didn't produce enough drag to slow you down so much that runners were managing to stay ahead of you on the course. (And assuming that marathon runners prioritize completion of the course over running sideways away from obvious danger, but they're marathon runners, that seems like a safe assumption.)by addaon
- Is this resident population or ambient?
I've been building a UK-wide 24-hour population dataset lately, and it's really opened my eyes to how much population data is best-guess-estimate - including census figures - and quite how difficult it is to say with any certainly how many people "touched" a location on any given day.
by mootothemax - Would be cool to be able to change the width/angle of the petalby teling