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Seeing a state-vs-state comparison is interesting, but it really doesn't mean all that much to say that people making under $25,000/year take in 24.7% of the country's income, at least not unless you tell us how many people make up that "under $25k" demographic.
How come Alaska is so wealthy?
I have a few negative points to make about this graph. 1) Maps are generally useful for area-based values, not population-based. A simple bar graph is equally as informative. 2) The bin sizes are unequal "below 40" and "above 60" bins may be misleading depending on how many states fall into those bins. Why bin at all? Just select a color in the colormap associated with that states value.. The bins are even worse on t…
State lines are also arbitrary, so the map allows you to spot regional trends.
County-granular would be better, perhaps with a thick color-coded state outline.
Somewhat interesting, but useless without taking into account the cost of living in each state.