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Music maps: Take a peek at the best-selling music artists in the USA and England by state and county
08.13.2018
07:51 am
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Brilliant Maps compiles maps of interesting things like countries that ban the corporal punishment of children or US State Route Marker Shields or (like the one above) the best-selling music artist or band from each US State.

In this particular map (created by reddit user famicon3) shows the best-selling American artist by state—click on the maps to get a better look. While there are the expected names (Elvis, Madonna, and Johnny Cash) there are a few surprises:

Alabama – Lionel Richie
Alaska – Portugal, The Man
Arizona – Linda Ronstadt
Arkansas – Johnny Cash
California – Eagles
Colorado – The Fray
Connecticut – Michael Bolton
Delaware – George Thorogood
Florida – Backstreet Boys
Georgia – Kanye West
Hawaii – Bruno Mars
Idaho – Paul Revere & the Raiders
Illinois – Chicago
Indiana – Michael Jackson
Iowa – Andy Williams
Kansas – Kansas
Kentucky – Dwight Yoakam
Louisiana – Lil Wayne
Maine – Howie Day
Maryland – Toni Braxton
Massachusetts – James Taylor
Michigan – Madonna
Minnesota – Prince
Mississippi – Elvis Presley
Missouri – Eminem
Montana – Nicolette Larson
Nebraska – Mannheim Steamroller
Nevada – The Killers
New Hampshire – Aerosmith
New Jersey – Whitney Houston
New Mexico – John Denver
New York – Mariah Carey
North Carolina – Randy Travis
North Dakota – Wiz Khalifa
Ohio – Rascal Flatts
Oklahoma – Garth Brooks
Oregon – Everclear
Pennsylvania – Taylor Swift
Rhode Island – Billy Gilman
South Carolina – Hootie & the Blowfish
South Dakota – Shawn Colvin
Tennessee – Tina Turner
Texas – George Strait
Utah – Jewel
Vermont – Phish
Virginia – Dave Matthews Band
Washington – Kenny G
West Virginia – Brad Paisley
Wisconsin – Steve Miller
Wyoming – Spencer Bohren

If this kinda thing tickles the old ukulele strings then take a peek at Best Selling Musical Artists By English County of Origin (created by reddit user uvbseventysix), which throws up a few more unexpected names.
 
More maps, after the jump…
 

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Posted by Paul Gallagher
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08.13.2018
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Finally, a map to track human poop
10.08.2015
10:08 am
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On Twitter, Matthew Yglesias of Vox has been arguing with people about why San Francisco smells so much like urine. Some people think it’s because it’s a dry city, so such smells aren’t washed away so often, while others have opted for a much more straightforward reason: people in San Francisco pee in public a lot.

(I don’t know San Francisco well—does it really smell like pee?)

The debate has had one clearly important positive by-product, which is that it introduced me to the existence of this utterly amazing map, put together by a data visualization enthusiast who goes by simply “William,” which illustrates all of the sightings of “human waste” in San Francisco from the summer of 2008 until the present day—and there are a lot of them.

Amusing as it may be, the map does serve an absolutely useful purpose, which is to help make the case that cities need more public bathrooms—but perhaps San Francisco especially so.

Yglesias’ final words on the subject are worth quoting:
 

I conjecture that street pooping and street peeing tend to be closely correlated and that in San Francisco’s case the underlying cause is an epidemic of homelessness—an epidemic generated, in part, by overly restrictive zoning that prevents the construction of enough new homes to accommodate the number of people who want to live in the Bay Area.

 

 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
South Korea’s poop-themed coffeeshop
You stepped in something: Smiling poop emoji shoes

Posted by Martin Schneider
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10.08.2015
10:08 am
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