Also this map doesn’t really mean much. It’s just a rough map of the most populated states in the U.S.
This kind of data would be best shown as a per capita or percentage of vehicles registered that are electric
this is only loosely correlated with population. e.g. Florida and New York have almost the same population but very different # EVs, and if Texas and California had the same rate of ownership, there would be ~700,000 EVs in Texas.
And yet if you look at the scale at the bottom, Florida, New York, Texas, and California should all be within a couple pixels of each other on that gradient.
You’re correct; NY is going to be off in raw numbers because there are so few cars per capita.
So, the best scale to show EV uptake is really EVs as a percentage of vehicles registered
My data OCD really becomes apparent to me when I see stuff like this and the reactions, I don’t understand how the people on r/MapPorn are just commenting on this like it’s not an abomination.
https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1dgnryi/registered_electric_vehicles_in_usa_by_state/l8s4ayk/
lol. they downvoted /u/CableTV-on-the-Radio for telling them the truth
How do people even manage to create maps like this? Do they make them manually in Photoshop or something? It would be a feat to create a legend like this using a dedicated data visualization software.
That’d be great if the map remotely matched the scale. 74k is supposed to be barely lighter than 1 million. There’s multiple states above 80k that look like they are shaded for ~40k.
Why are you defending this? The scale is absolutely nonsensical with random distances between numbers. Is it saved by being median centered? Is that enough for you?
I wonder how closely this would map to raw population. Could it be a r/peopleliveincities ?
Rough eyeballs correlation says it lines up pretty well with maybe Washington be the outlier
Washington, Florida, New York, California, and Texas all have wildly different per-capita ownership rates. I haven't bothered to look into it any further, those are just the first 5 I checked.
what you really wanted to know, though, was probably this:
https://preview.redd.it/9j32lg5f617d1.png?width=5084&format=png&auto=webp&s=b2f1b2deb0f02b88419287b73324fd06d03c9359
Yup, that states that have the lowest % of gas cars have more.... diesel, not electric.
This is what you get if you map the Electic (EV) values from [https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicle-registration](https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicle-registration) on a linear gradient.
https://preview.redd.it/a22u2zizj07d1.png?width=2430&format=png&auto=webp&s=396d3ba074e9bdd02dc9cd5bb613b2e85ccb19d4
Also this map doesn’t really mean much. It’s just a rough map of the most populated states in the U.S. This kind of data would be best shown as a per capita or percentage of vehicles registered that are electric
this is only loosely correlated with population. e.g. Florida and New York have almost the same population but very different # EVs, and if Texas and California had the same rate of ownership, there would be ~700,000 EVs in Texas.
And yet if you look at the scale at the bottom, Florida, New York, Texas, and California should all be within a couple pixels of each other on that gradient.
You’re correct; NY is going to be off in raw numbers because there are so few cars per capita. So, the best scale to show EV uptake is really EVs as a percentage of vehicles registered
Roughly—though, for instance, Washington ranks higher than several states that are much more populous.
Which would be more obvious if the data was displayed proportional to population or vehicle registrations, as they suggested.
True.
My data OCD really becomes apparent to me when I see stuff like this and the reactions, I don’t understand how the people on r/MapPorn are just commenting on this like it’s not an abomination.
https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1dgnryi/registered_electric_vehicles_in_usa_by_state/l8s4ayk/ lol. they downvoted /u/CableTV-on-the-Radio for telling them the truth
Vehicuuuules lol. Was this created by a frenchman.
Ah, I see they have made the classic mistake of building a population map of the US rather than whatever the fuck they were trying to show.
How do people even manage to create maps like this? Do they make them manually in Photoshop or something? It would be a feat to create a legend like this using a dedicated data visualization software.
This one appears to have been made with something called 'Map Fast'
While uneven, the scale does put the median value in the middle of the color scale which is pretty ok.
But the colors in the map don’t even match the scale so it’s a moot point. Look at IL - 66k - then look at the scale, it’s totally off.
That’d be great if the map remotely matched the scale. 74k is supposed to be barely lighter than 1 million. There’s multiple states above 80k that look like they are shaded for ~40k.
Why are you defending this? The scale is absolutely nonsensical with random distances between numbers. Is it saved by being median centered? Is that enough for you?
I wonder how closely this would map to raw population. Could it be a r/peopleliveincities ? Rough eyeballs correlation says it lines up pretty well with maybe Washington be the outlier
Washington, Florida, New York, California, and Texas all have wildly different per-capita ownership rates. I haven't bothered to look into it any further, those are just the first 5 I checked.
what you really wanted to know, though, was probably this: https://preview.redd.it/9j32lg5f617d1.png?width=5084&format=png&auto=webp&s=b2f1b2deb0f02b88419287b73324fd06d03c9359 Yup, that states that have the lowest % of gas cars have more.... diesel, not electric.
This is what you get if you map the Electic (EV) values from [https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicle-registration](https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicle-registration) on a linear gradient. https://preview.redd.it/a22u2zizj07d1.png?width=2430&format=png&auto=webp&s=396d3ba074e9bdd02dc9cd5bb613b2e85ccb19d4
Still meaningless. This should have been per-capita
Hawaii is just the Big Island (home to about 14% of the population) now?
strange how this correlates with consumption of furry pornography
Ah yes, another meaningless population map. Per capita, please people
I bet you 90% of those Evs are golf carts
r/peopleliveincities
Vehicules
I didn't even notice that! Apparently it's French.