Cmastication,
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I did the dumbest little project tonight. I find it amusing that my European colleagues don't realize that their country is basically the size of Indiana.. or Tennessee or some other state that they can't find on a map. So I pulled the data to determine which state is most like which country. My 3 metrics are: population, land mass, and GDP. I have the data cleaned up. So maybe now a simple Shiny app?

What should I do with this project?

priryo,
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@Cmastication
Extend it to show the public transport infrastructure of the comparator state :p
@NRoelandt

Cmastication,
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@priryo @NRoelandt that’s trivial. There’s no public transit in the US. Easy peasy.

benjamingeer,
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@Cmastication @oxl Can your American colleagues find the states of Germany on a map? Bavaria is bigger than West Virginia.

Cmastication,
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@benjamingeer @oxl nobody knows where Bavaria is. Someone should build a Shiny app to teach them!

kellogh,
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@Cmastication @benjamingeer @oxl most americans don’t know where south dakota is

Cmastication,
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@kellogh @benjamingeer @oxl South Dakota is made up for western movies. Same with Idaho. Everyone knows that.

kellogh,
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@Cmastication @benjamingeer @oxl technically south dakota is just a county in the state of WyoMoDack, a state that happens to have 8 senators

benjamingeer,
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@kellogh @Cmastication @oxl I always thought it was just called Dakota and was invented by Paul McCartney for the song Rocky Raccoon.

Cmastication,
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@benjamingeer @kellogh @oxl I would like to amend my previous answer. This is more accurate and I am on team Rocky Raccoon.

Jakra,
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@Cmastication also include comparisons to other places. Sure, European countries aren’t that big. Now include African nations, and Asian, even Australian. For example, Texas is less than 1/3 of Western Australia’s land area! Population is a lot lower though.

Cmastication,
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@Jakra I include every UN recognized country. Not just European.

Dan,
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@Jakra @Cmastication this sent me down a 'The true size of...' rabbit hole. So good. Recreate that in Shiny but for sub-national regions, with addition metric comparisons and I'll totally buy you a beer! https://www.thetruesize.com

Cmastication,
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@Dan @Jakra I had forgotten about that. So cool.

I’m totally going to need some maps on this thing.

Cmastication,
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I think I want two web apps:

  1. Pick a country and then return a list of the top 10 most similar US states.
  2. reverse that: pick a state and return the top 10 most similar countries.

I then will maybe add weighting for each of the variables (gap, pop, area)

Cmastication,
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Here's the country and state data scrape from wikipedia. It's really basic:

https://github.com/CerebralMastication/countries_states/blob/main/00_pull_data.R

brodriguesco,
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@Cmastication I know that in terms of size, Luxembourg is about one Rhode Island

Cmastication,
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@brodriguesco Luxembourg is much much nicer though :)

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