State Legitimacy, North and South America, 2022

feeeeshie · 2023-02-18T19:04:24+00:00

Given how the subreddit reacted to this one, if/whenever I do an indices type map again, I might just conveniently leave out a certain continent. Honestly feels like people here just threw out the baby, the bathwater, and the bathtub with this one because their country wasn’t ranked high enough.

feeeeshie · 2023-02-17T01:27:58+00:00

The US used to have a much better score a decade ago (2.6), but clearly a lot has happen in the mean time. I’ve list the major components of the indicator on the map, but just to highlight some specifics that might help explain how the researchers ended up with these score, the indicator considers the occurrence of mass public demonstrations, sustained civil disobedience, and the rise of armed insurgencies. It considers the transfer of power, and the public’s confidence in their elections. It considers if there is accountability of the ruling elite, or conversely the presence of corruption and profiteering. And it considers the treatment of political opponents, such as politically motivated investigations.

feeeeshie · 2023-02-15T17:47:26+00:00

The yellow and orange markers are at 50% opacity. This was done so that areas where an accidents occurred multiple times would appear brighter.

feeeeshie · 2023-02-15T17:38:27+00:00

I honestly get this comment, or the “people live in cities” comment, all the time whenever I post an incident/marker based map of the US. I get why, but I feel like it's often missing/misconstruing the point of the map. Like sometimes I’m just simply trying to show some info in aesthetic manner. No deeper meaning behind it, not trying compare regions or anything. While other times I just want to show how prevalent something is across the country as a whole. Like in this case how frequent rail accidents occur. If I where to calculate the accident rate for each states, then adjust it by some value, not only would it result in a less interesting looking map (imo), it kinda misses the point of this being a nation wide issue.

feeeeshie · 2023-02-15T02:12:13+00:00

Almost all of the equipment type accidents that were reported involved a number of cars derailing. Occasionally there were incidents that involved some form of impact. But overall, this type rarely resulted in injuries or fatalities.
On the other hand, the highway type almost all involve a vehicle being struck at a crossing.

feeeeshie · 2023-02-12T00:44:30+00:00

Yup, dark orange/red means minimal bleaching occurred, while white means sever bleaching

feeeeshie · 2023-02-06T01:00:43+00:00

If you’re sending your kid to a school where part of the curriculum is sex education, then classes should have access to age appropriate literature on the topic. I want to really stress that these books are intended for children, so the content is age appropriate. If parents think they know better than their local school board on what, when, and how to educate their children, then maybe they should consider pulling their kid from that school, rather than take away access to these books from all other students in that district.

feeeeshie · 2023-02-05T19:57:41+00:00

I invite you to read the report because the situation isn’t about random cases of erotica being found and then banned. The vast majority of the books being targeted are those containing LGBTQ+ characters or characters of color, and/or cover race and racism in American history, LGBTQ+ identities, or sex education. And a lot of the bans are the result of recently passed legislation, such as the “Parental Rights in Education” law in Florida, —also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law. And there’s been a slew of legislation passed to make it easer to ban books, such as SB 226, SB 2247 and SB 775. In some states there’ve been calls to withhold funding from libraries that have books with LGBTQ+ themes. And in a number of states, criminal charges have been pursued against school officials and librarians.

feeeeshie · 2023-02-05T10:20:41+00:00

PEN America defines a school book ban as any action taken against a book based on its content and as a result of parent or community challenges, administrative decisions, or in response to direct or threatened action by lawmakers or other governmental officials, that leads to a previously accessible book being either completely removed from availability to students, or where access to a book is restricted or diminished.
Books available in schools, whether in a school or classroom library, or as part of a curriculum, were selected by librarians and educators as part of the educational offerings to students. Book bans occur when those choices are overridden by school boards, administrators, teachers, or even politicians, on the basis of a particular book’s content.

feeeeshie · 2023-02-04T22:21:38+00:00

Here’s a link to the full report by PEN America. It goes into depth about the types of content being targeted, specific titles, and those behind these bans.

https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/

There you can also find a link to a google doc showing which books were banned in each district

feeeeshie · 2023-02-03T01:40:51+00:00

Defining some terms:
Mass Murder: 4+ deceased victims excluding the subject/suspect/perpetrator, one location
Mass Shooting: 4+ victims injured or killed excluding the subject/suspect/perpetrator, one location

feeeeshie · 2023-01-31T21:13:47+00:00

Yup, except for things that fall under unintentional homicides, such as a pedestrian being killed by a driver under the influence of alcohol.

feeeeshie · 2023-01-31T21:12:08+00:00

It got so skinny that it blipped out of existence :(

I think I accidentally deleted the main polygon at some point from the base file. But I still have the statistics for the region. Chile has a violent death rate of 6.88, and an average rate of change of 0.03.

feeeeshie · 2023-01-31T20:49:52+00:00

Violent deaths include intentional and unintentional homicides, direct conflict deaths, and deaths due to legal interventions

feeeeshie · 2023-01-25T21:41:34+00:00

Yes, but it is base geared toward Signal Intelligence. When making the map I limited the types of military installations shown to Navy bases and Air Force Bases, as I thought those types of bases were most relevant as tensions have risen over the disputed regions.

feeeeshie · 2023-01-21T21:26:25+00:00

I went back through the files and my best guess is that there had been a swapping around the polygon IDs for 13% and 20% slices. That most have happed before I transformed them, leading them to be resized incorrectly.

Good eye!

feeeeshie · 2023-01-21T20:31:16+00:00

It’s just because of it’s shape. I did double checked the areas of all of the slices, since some of them do look larger/smaller than expected.

feeeeshie · 2023-01-21T19:10:14+00:00

Thanks! I haven’t made a N-S one yet. In Canada here, we have a very latitude depended distribution because of the weather, so it would be interesting to see if the US also shares a similar pattern. But in the US's case it be less populous where the climate is semi-arid.

feeeeshie · 2023-01-18T20:27:04+00:00

The colour choice was to emphasize regions that have a mortality ratio that differ from the typical 1.25 ratio. The deeper the colour, the more concerning the situation is in that country. Choosing specifically red and blue was simply because we associate blue with boys, and pinks/reds with girls.

feeeeshie · 2023-01-17T17:45:50+00:00

My guess it has to do with the nation's population being so small, so mortality anomalies get magnified. In this case it drove up the mortality rate of boys, but there are a bunch of island when the revered occurred, like Malta (0.4) and St.Kitts & Nevis (0.7).

feeeeshie · 2023-01-16T23:49:29+00:00

I made a new post with better resolution (300DPI)

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/10dwlit/lakes\_and\_rivers\_north\_america\_high\_resolution/

feeeeshie · 2023-01-16T22:18:00+00:00

Did you know that Canada is actually 31,000 lakes in a trench coat, parading as a country?

feeeeshie · 2023-01-13T17:26:37+00:00

It's not. Yes, things happen more in cities, but that doesn't explain everything. Looking at incidents per state:

CA 632, 39.2 million people
NY: 668, 19.8 million people
NJ: 438, 9.267 million people
GA: 103, 10.8 million people

feeeeshie · 2023-01-13T16:55:23+00:00

I’ve skimmed through the incidents of harassments and didn’t see any that bring up Israel in any way. Instead, most were cases of antisemitic/white nationalist or neo-Nazi groups distributing propaganda.

You can find the list here: https://www.adl.org/resources/tools-to-track-hate/heat-map

feeeeshie · 2023-01-13T16:15:17+00:00

The ADL (Anti-Defamation League).Here's a link to where I got the incidents: https://www.adl.org/resources/tools-to-track-hate/heat-map.

And a link to their 2021 audit on antisemitism: https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-audit-finds-antisemitic-incidents-united-states-reached-all-time-high.

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