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Check this out! It's a Map of the birthplaces of all the current NHL players!
http://www.everyoneelseisdoingit.com/maps/NHL_2011-12.html
That is a cool distribution.
Notable:
Furthest North = a bunch of Swedes (not surprising), followed by a clump in Anchorage, Alaska, and Jordin Tootoo in Churchill, Manitoba
Furthest South = Robyn Regehr from Recife, Brazil, followed by Some guy I've never heard of from some place I've never heard of near Indonesia
There is a guy (Ryan O'Marra) who was born in Tokyo, Japan!
There is another guy (Richard Park) from Seoul, South Korea!
There is a guy from Sardinia!
Despite the fact that there are loads of Swedes and Finns, there is only one guy from Norway (I've always wondered about this - it seems odd to me).
There are LOTS from all over Canada (or at least the parts of Canada where there are actually people).
This is a map of where people were born, not where they grew up (which might be a more interesting distribution, but harder to gather data), so it's flawed. For example the city where my family lived when I was born didn't have a hospital, so I was born in the city next door. Then we moved two months later to another country, but the point is that I never lived in the place where I was born.
In conclusion: Maps are cool. :)
http://www.everyoneelseisdoingit.com/maps/NHL_2011-12.html
That is a cool distribution.
Notable:
Furthest North = a bunch of Swedes (not surprising), followed by a clump in Anchorage, Alaska, and Jordin Tootoo in Churchill, Manitoba
Furthest South = Robyn Regehr from Recife, Brazil, followed by Some guy I've never heard of from some place I've never heard of near Indonesia
There is a guy (Ryan O'Marra) who was born in Tokyo, Japan!
There is another guy (Richard Park) from Seoul, South Korea!
There is a guy from Sardinia!
Despite the fact that there are loads of Swedes and Finns, there is only one guy from Norway (I've always wondered about this - it seems odd to me).
There are LOTS from all over Canada (or at least the parts of Canada where there are actually people).
This is a map of where people were born, not where they grew up (which might be a more interesting distribution, but harder to gather data), so it's flawed. For example the city where my family lived when I was born didn't have a hospital, so I was born in the city next door. Then we moved two months later to another country, but the point is that I never lived in the place where I was born.
In conclusion: Maps are cool. :)
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Date: 2012-04-05 05:46 am (UTC)From: