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Petal length = distance to 100k people.",[],"unknown",{"praise":61,"objections":85,"requests":124,"questions":152,"alternatives":164},[62,78],{"value":63,"source":64,"evidence":65},"Cool and fun visualization of how empty parts of the US are","commenter",[66,70,74],{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},"49090462","dmoy","That is a cool visualization. Punched in my grandparents' town and a bunch of the slices stretched 1500km over three states away. A lot of the US is big and empty.",{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"49092265","johndear223","Pretty cool, took me a few minutes to figure it out, there was a nice stretch of Florida that had no rays, clear cut wilderness",{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"49090457","dwa3592","Fun! If you click in the center of Nebraska, US - there are some angles for which you will never find 100k people.",{"value":79,"source":64,"evidence":80},"Useful idea, drive-time version requested",[81],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"49089895","paulkrush","This is cool and useful. I would love to see the drive time version.",[86,97,112],{"value":87,"source":64,"evidence":88},"Results are wrong or inconsistent in places, e.g. full circles inside LA county exceed its population",[89,93],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"49091235","tshaddox","I must be slightly confused about what claims this visualization is making. Are these 5 degree rays supposed to be indicating non-overlapping triangles where each triangle…",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"49093307","tomjakubowski","Yeah, this can't possibly be right. Los Angeles, the city, has less than 4 million people, and there are complete \"circles\" of presumably 7.2 million people entirely within its…",{"value":98,"source":64,"evidence":99},"Does not cover Canada, so northern rays are skewed",[100,104,108],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"49091873","qrush","It's rough not having Canada's population in here. There's way more than 100k people in all directions north from Buffalo and it doesn't feel accurate.",{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"49090113","yabones","Indeed, it doesn't seem to think that the fairly large cities of Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, and Thunder Bay have a population of approximately zero. Anywhere…",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"49108114","joe5150","Anywhere that far north seems to be skewed by lack of data from Canada. For example, I clicked NE of Seattle (on Bothell specifically) and got a 1200 mi ray that passes right…",{"value":113,"source":64,"evidence":114},"Unclear what the visualization measures",[115,119,120],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"49092285","pastel8739","What does “distance to 100k people mean”?",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"49090075","whimsicalism","I don't fully understand what this is supposed to visualize, but at least for my location it tells me I'd have to run considerably far into golden gate park, which I imagine is…",[125,140,145],{"value":126,"source":64,"evidence":127},"Support countries outside the US",[128,132,136],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"49089919","jstanley","Doesn't work outside the US sadly.",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"49091342","JohnJohnson123","This is very cool - I really want to see it in other places outside of the US - I imagine the centre of Australia only has like 4 potential lines. 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