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Software Craftsmanship: Geographical Distribution

Jun 23, 2009

I often compute statistics from publicly available data, tell myself I'll blog about them, and then never do. For once, I'm actually doing it!

The graph below shows how many software craftsmanship manifesto signatories US states have relative to their total population. Only states with at least five signatories are included.

I'm about to move from Cleveland to Seattle – #4 to #1. Not bad!

Have a look at the source code if you'd like. (It was hacked together; please judge it gently.)

UPDATE: In the comments, Joel Helbling suggested a Google Charts map. Here's one with states colored from red to green for lowest to highest signatories per million residents (source):



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Posted by Joel Helbling at Tue Jun 23 16:04:41 2009

Very cool...Here it is as a Google Charts map:

<a href="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=t&chtm=usa&chs=440x220&chco=FFFFFF,FFFFFF,00FF00&chld=WACOILOHIAMIMAMNUTTXNEPAWIOKVAORCTAZTNFLNCMDCAMONYGAINKYNJ&chd=t:51,34,81,69,18,48,28,20,10,87,6,40,17,11,23,11,9,16,15,44,21,10,65,10,30,14,9,6,7">http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=t&chtm=usa&chs=440x220&chco=FFFFFF,FFFFFF,00FF00&chld=WACOILOHIAMIMAMNUTTXNEPAWIOKVAORCTAZTNFLNCMDCAMONYGAINKYNJ&chd=t:51,34,81,69,18,48,28,20,10,87,6,40,17,11,23,11,9,16,15,44,21,10,65,10,30,14,9,6,7</a>


Posted by Gary Bernhardt at Wed Jun 24 12:37:27 2009

Great idea! I just updated my post with a map. I used a red-to-green color scale and normalized PPM numbers, rather than the absolute counts.


Posted by Matt at Wed Jun 24 12:52:20 2009

MI Represent!


Posted by Jonathan Penn at Wed Jun 24 13:04:08 2009

I will personally blame you if Ohio drops from #4 to #5. Your abandonment will not soon be forgotten. :-)


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