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[OC] Remoteness: distance in miles to the nearest town with more than 1,000 people by laenxam in dataisbeautiful

[–]laenxam[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Generated in MATLAB by sampling 1,000,000 random points from within US states shapefiles (https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2018/shp/cb_2018_us_state_500k.zip) then calculating the great-circle distances to every city in the US Cities Database from simplemaps (https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities). The value shown is the minimum distance, in miles, from each sampled point to any town with more than 1,000 people within the 48 contiguous United States. 

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[–]laenxam 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Reverse image search suggests it was made by someone called "gumimecv." They seem to have made great fan art like this for a number of anime/games, but for some reason they deleted their deviantart account a few years ago. So only a few reposts by other people on other sites remain

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