Facebook ’s Data Science team has released its 2014 NFL American Fandom Map , to denounce the beginning of the NFL time of year . The map use Facebook “ likes ” to determine the most popular NFL squad in every U.S. county . The result is “ one of the most comprehensive sampling of sport fanship ever collected . ”
Even if you ’re not a sports fan of sportsball , dataphiles should still find this engrossing . Facebook report last yearthat roughly 35 - million of its U.S. explanation - bearer had “ liked ” the page of one of the NFL ’s 32 teams . Even if that number has n’t increased , which it believably has , it still mean more than 1 in 10 Americans has pledged fealty to one squad or another . As The Upshot noted when describingtheir U.S. function of baseball game fandomback in April , “ fans may not number which team they favor on the census , but one thousand thousand of them do make their preferences public on Facebook . ”
Each county is color - coded to rival the official NFL squad page that has received the most “ Likes ” from masses living in that county , which , in twist , gives rise to some pretty distinctive regions of loyalty – and one very conspicuous no - show ( sorry , Jets rooter ) . To which squad does your county , body politic , or region owe fealty?How have these allegiances changed since last yr ?
We ’ll be catch to see how the borders of fanship shift , shrink , and expand over the course of instruction of the season , or , more probable , the playoff season – based on Facebook ’s fan mathematical function from 2013 , that ’s when thing get really interesting .
If you ’re into this brand of datum - mapping , I recommend ensure out the Facebook Data Science team’sinvestigation of on-line suit behaviour , or this map by the geo - datum experts at Floatingsheep , which chartstweets of the words “ beer ” and “ church ” by U.S. county .
The nature of online courting , visualized
https://gizmodo.com/tweets-of-the-words-beer-and-church-by-u-s-county-5923723
And for the more geographically incline , here ’s some more fun withmapsandborders .
https://gizmodo.com/africas-true-size-will-blow-you-away-1441076531
Here ’s what Pangea looks like mapped with forward-looking political mete
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