mikeman7918 t1_iu7hu8f wrote on October 29, 2022 at 3:34 AM

r/peopleliveincities moment

Vilko3259 t1_iu7jm43 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 3:51 AM

not quite, which makes things interesting. Florida's pretty low while Iowa's much higher than I expected. It's interesting to speculate about which states people go to and which they move from. I only hear stories of people going from rural states/areas to the coasts/cities but not the reverse and I think that plays out a little on this map.

mikeman7918 t1_iu7k61n wrote on October 29, 2022 at 3:57 AM

I’d be interested in seeing these numbers per capita or compared to the total population change, because without that you have to do a lot of math and research other numbers to conclude anything interesting which kind of defeats the purpose of a polished data visualization.

Vilko3259 t1_iu7n2kp wrote on October 29, 2022 at 4:27 AM

per capita is usually the way to go but in this case it might be strange as the populations have changed a ton over the years.

Also, you can pretty clearly draw conclusions from the graph already, like judging which proportion of US residents since 1850 were born where. Per capita numbers would just obfuscate

Maguncia t1_iuam78c wrote on October 29, 2022 at 9:19 PM

Well, I think that's exactly what the map is trying to show, that "ton of change" - how some states have historically been much larger. Per capita makes that a bit clearer.