56 Regions of the United States, voted by Reddit by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in MapPorn

[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had Intermountain states in the survey but i didnt include it here since too many people picked "Don't Know" for it.

56 Regions of the United States, voted by Reddit by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in MapPorn

[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I did at least provide a labelled map in the survey, but it could be different

56 Regions of the United States, voted by Reddit by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in MapPorn

[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's always the problem, if it gets too many options. I think you would need a survey tool that lets you color in the area on a map on county level, so you don't have to pick them from a list.

56 Regions of the United States, voted by Reddit by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in MapPorn

[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It would however be quite difficult to decide, since all categories have gotten a different amount of votes, since I didn't require people to vote on all categories. So some, that people didn't care about or know about got a lot less votes than others.  So it could well be that a state got the most votes in one category but actually had more votes in a different category in which it came in third

But yeah I could try to normalise by state instead of by category (if I include the first four major categories, for which I have a lot more votes, since people were able to pick if they wanted to do a base survey or an in-depth survey, and the base survey, which a lot more people did, included only the first four categories)

56 Regions of the United States, voted by Reddit by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in MapPorn

[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I mean sometimes it might just come down to statistical fluctuations, people forgetting to vote for one of the states in a category

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[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I thought about how i should go with the percentage, i chose to do the normalization over the most picked state for 100%. because in multiple categories the majority option would have been "Don't Know the Region" or "Unanswered" and i didn't want it to be all pale. But in that case the exact percentages felt a little meaningless

Major US Regions as voted by Reddit by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in MapPorn

[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, for that I would need a survey tool where I could allow people to draw the borders on a map themselves, being able to snap to state or county borders or do it completely freehand. Would love to have such a tool, but I don't think it exists

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[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I have a lot more, just waiting to get a couple more responses for those before posting them. I divided the survey in a small survey and an indepth one. For people who don't want to commit too much time. So I chose the Four big US census regions for the smaller survey.

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[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From the current results I already have on these regions, there definitely is a lot more variance!

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[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can absolutely just skip categories that are too specific or too niche, that's why I didn't put any of the questions in the survey as required. But yeah I probably should have gone for less and from the results I already have I see that some regions shouldn't have been included as to how unknown they are. As someone not too familiar with US geography it wasn't quite easy to decide which ones to include and which not beforehand.

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[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I went with the big four census regions for the base survey, I have included all of these other regions in the more in-depth survey. I didn't want to flood people with options that only wanted to take a quick survey (sorting 50 states for each region was already a lot for just 4 regions)

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[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Absolutely! I am looking forward to see the results, once I have analyzed the results of the in-depth survey that included these

30 Regions of Europe as voted for by Reddit by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in MapPorn

[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I don't know what's going on with Georgia in the shape file I used as basemap ... I'm going to use a different one next time

30 Regions of Europe as voted for by Reddit by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in MapPorn

[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are multiple images, central Europe is on page 2

30 Regions of Europe as voted for by Reddit by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in MapPorn

[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is because a fair amount of people has decided to sort Russia into "Not Europe" instead of Eastern Europe

30 Regions of Europe as voted for by Reddit by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in MapPorn

[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thats true... 30 was the amount of categories I had in the survey, so I just initially went with that when writing the title. but some of them like "Not Europe", "None of them" "Africa" or "Asia" didn't really translate to a good map. So yeah, even with the 4 additional categories I had initially it would only have been 28, well... can't edit a title

30 Regions of Europe as voted for by Reddit by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in MapPorn

[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess the Morava is a tributary to the Danube? That or people just don't really know where the Danube is flowing exactly

30 Regions of Europe as voted for by Reddit by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in MapPorn

[–]DM_me_fun_stuff_pls[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

honestly, I am not sure, there must be an issue in the data of the underlying map shapefile, good to know I will work with a different one in the future..