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Posted by surprisetalk 4 days ago

Just Put It on a Map(progressandpoverty.substack.com)
110 points | 55 commentspage 2
the_sleaze_ 9 hours ago|
> Show an elected official

What is the problem this visualization seeks to make obvious? Is it just neat to think about and make?

larsiusprime 7 hours ago|
Author here. This is the problem we are seeking to solve, we are property tax reform activists:

https://open.substack.com/pub/progressandpoverty/p/enacting-...

PeterHolzwarth 7 hours ago||
A minor thing - I know that article is part of a broader body of work and is not meant to solely present your ideas by itself. But nonetheless, since you linked to it, I had to scan down quite a bit to answer the question that was immediately on my mind: "tax reform for what purpose and why?"

And, an aside, I'd personally recommend getting rid of the emoji bullet-point additions: in this day and age, well, you know.

larsiusprime 7 hours ago||
Good points! Thanks.
AlfredBarnes 8 hours ago||
Was cool to see a few of the cities, and then cross reference with some searches on pricing to get a better understanding of the actual cost.
xnx 9 hours ago||
Probably fun to make but harder to read compared to a bar chart.
flir 6 hours ago|
I suspect the visualisation is hiding a power law distribution that would be much more apparent in 2d.
jonathanberger 7 hours ago|
Note that the site that generated these does not support any San Francisco Bay Area cities. I learned this only after being forced to "Sign in with Google".
VintageCool 1 hour ago|
It says in the linked article that they only have support for 9 cities so far, and they list them as:

Spokane, WA

Syracuse, NY

South Bend, IN

Bellingham, WA

Morgantown, WV

Cincinnati, OH

St Paul, MN

Rochester, NY

New York City, NY

It also says that they are working on improving the data pipeline so that they can reduce the amount of time it takes to add new cities to their dataset and visualization.