This is the rare mapporn post that 1) I haven’t seen before and 2) actually looks accurate. This sub is usually garbage.
Logging in Oregon and Maine? Aircraft work in Washington with Boeing? Oil in North Dakota and Oklahoma? Food scientists in Minnesota and Physicists in New Mexico? This all looks plausible.
mazon-jar on
Dalton, Georgia: The Carpet Capital of the World
Valcyor on
Given that Washington and Colorado have disproportionately high amounts of aerospace-related jobs (for obvious reasons), I’m actually surprised Alabama doesn’t.
Also, Mississippi, wtf? That’s a job?
Unofficial_Salt_Dan on
Is there a legend? What do these colors mean?
Where is this data from?
soopadrive on
dinglepumpkin on
College Resident Advisors in SD?
Seagrams7ssu on
Subway operator in Md? Baltimore has one crappy subway line that no one uses, and the ass end of three DC metro lines…
MomTRex on
My heart just broke with this map.
I live in MA and Trump has destroyed biotech research in both academia and the private sector. Hope y’all have a cure for cancer because Moderna was working on a vaccine for pancreatic CA but with the cuts to everything….
laminateswitch on
Depending on how this data collected this could skew greatly from reality. For example Indiana is home to Purdue university which uses the nickname Boilermakers for students, alumni, and athletics. While I don’t doubt that there may be a large number of people employed as boilermakers this could easily be the result of some misinterpreted results from whatever data collection was used.
foxandflowers19 on
Indiana tracks, but just for half the state.
foley23 on
I work in Survey Research in PA… Within like a 3 mile radius of my house there’s like 8 other companies that do it as well, and that’s just 2 towns. It’s everywhere around here outside Philadelphia.
Score-Emergency on
Another map without New Zealand 🇳🇿
Bratmon on
This seems… too good. Like, I would expect actual data would be weird/surprising at least once. This feels like someone sat down and made up clever ideas for each state.
SimmentalTheCow on
Lmao New Jersey
dtarias on
Norman Borlaug being from Iowa and doing his research in Minnesota checks out
It uses Bureau of Labor Statistics data from May 2013, and divides the frequency of each occupation in the state by the overall frequency in the US, and takes the maximum among these.
phlegelhorn on
I’ll bite. South Carolina, what’s a tire builder? A tire factory worker?
Mac-A-Saurus on
Hell yeah Indiana! Boiler Up!
ToffeeTuner on
Having spent time in Wisconsin, I assume the most of the foundry caster jobs are from Kohler. Could be some others but I know they’re a huge employer there.
LegSpecialist1781 on
You ok up there, South Dakota?
Sarcastic_Backpack on
Disproportionately popular compared to what? The national average? Some other metric?
ComprehensiveSoft27 on
Physicists in New Mexico: Just what are you working on now?
Mr_Epitome on
Groundskeepers in IL is wild!
PossyRiot on
How is Missouri real?
DirtyPelicanx on
Honestly this seems like it tracks
Pretty_Razzmatazz202 on
It’s giving ‘the districts of Panem’
MagolorX on
Colorado is about to lose of its major employers for atmospheric scientists in the form of NCAR if this administration actually decides to close it. Absolute idiots
MikeTheActuary on
In Connecticut. Can confirm.
Weasel_Town on
Why does New Jersey have so many marriage and family therapists? That’s one of the few I found surprising.
Admiral52 on
There’s no scale…
WormLivesMatter on
lol VT has only 2 highways but are always under construction in the summer.
Bahnrokt-AK on
Further evidence that New Hampshire is the Alabama of New England.
LegalCommand3114 on
What does disproportionately mean? And what do the colors signify?
rafdompa on
Not sure about subway operators in MD though. There isn’t a significantly large subway system here that would support a disproportionate number of those jobs.
Did they mean Subway restaurants?
ladygrayfox on
What drunk ass coordinate system is that supposed to be?
LordMomotius on
Broilermakers in Indiana is likely from Purdue, as that is their mascot.
pmtuschiches on
California probably has more farmworkers than the entire midwest
JFK2MD on
The map was genuinely interesting.
sir_mrej on
wtf does this mean
MrWaltMitty on
I call BS…show the data.
fluffysmaster on
Some make a lot of sense:
Connecticut: actuaries (Hartford is U.S. insurance capital)
Delaware: chemists (DuPont)
D.C.: political scientists (duh!)
WV: miners
California: farm workers
Texas: petroleum engineers
Maine: loggers (lots of logging in the Allagash)
Georgia: textile workers (though I’m surprised, lots of mills have closed)
Mattallurgy on
What’s the definition of a “disproportionately popular job”?
StelIaMaris on
As an Indiana University grad, seeing Indiana be boilermakers fills me with unspeakable rage
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This is the rare mapporn post that 1) I haven’t seen before and 2) actually looks accurate. This sub is usually garbage.
Logging in Oregon and Maine? Aircraft work in Washington with Boeing? Oil in North Dakota and Oklahoma? Food scientists in Minnesota and Physicists in New Mexico? This all looks plausible.
Dalton, Georgia: The Carpet Capital of the World
Given that Washington and Colorado have disproportionately high amounts of aerospace-related jobs (for obvious reasons), I’m actually surprised Alabama doesn’t.
Also, Mississippi, wtf? That’s a job?
Is there a legend? What do these colors mean?
Where is this data from?
College Resident Advisors in SD?
Subway operator in Md? Baltimore has one crappy subway line that no one uses, and the ass end of three DC metro lines…
My heart just broke with this map.
I live in MA and Trump has destroyed biotech research in both academia and the private sector. Hope y’all have a cure for cancer because Moderna was working on a vaccine for pancreatic CA but with the cuts to everything….
Depending on how this data collected this could skew greatly from reality. For example Indiana is home to Purdue university which uses the nickname Boilermakers for students, alumni, and athletics. While I don’t doubt that there may be a large number of people employed as boilermakers this could easily be the result of some misinterpreted results from whatever data collection was used.
Indiana tracks, but just for half the state.
I work in Survey Research in PA… Within like a 3 mile radius of my house there’s like 8 other companies that do it as well, and that’s just 2 towns. It’s everywhere around here outside Philadelphia.
Another map without New Zealand 🇳🇿
This seems… too good. Like, I would expect actual data would be weird/surprising at least once. This feels like someone sat down and made up clever ideas for each state.
Lmao New Jersey
Norman Borlaug being from Iowa and doing his research in Minnesota checks out
For anyone who is asking for a source, it’s here:
[https://www.businessinsider.com/most-popular-job-by-state-map-2014-4](https://www.businessinsider.com/most-popular-job-by-state-map-2014-4)
It uses Bureau of Labor Statistics data from May 2013, and divides the frequency of each occupation in the state by the overall frequency in the US, and takes the maximum among these.
I’ll bite. South Carolina, what’s a tire builder? A tire factory worker?
Hell yeah Indiana! Boiler Up!
Having spent time in Wisconsin, I assume the most of the foundry caster jobs are from Kohler. Could be some others but I know they’re a huge employer there.
You ok up there, South Dakota?
Disproportionately popular compared to what? The national average? Some other metric?
Physicists in New Mexico: Just what are you working on now?
Groundskeepers in IL is wild!
How is Missouri real?
Honestly this seems like it tracks
It’s giving ‘the districts of Panem’
Colorado is about to lose of its major employers for atmospheric scientists in the form of NCAR if this administration actually decides to close it. Absolute idiots
In Connecticut. Can confirm.
Why does New Jersey have so many marriage and family therapists? That’s one of the few I found surprising.
There’s no scale…
lol VT has only 2 highways but are always under construction in the summer.
Further evidence that New Hampshire is the Alabama of New England.
What does disproportionately mean? And what do the colors signify?
Not sure about subway operators in MD though. There isn’t a significantly large subway system here that would support a disproportionate number of those jobs.
Did they mean Subway restaurants?
What drunk ass coordinate system is that supposed to be?
Broilermakers in Indiana is likely from Purdue, as that is their mascot.
California probably has more farmworkers than the entire midwest
The map was genuinely interesting.
wtf does this mean
I call BS…show the data.
Some make a lot of sense:
Connecticut: actuaries (Hartford is U.S. insurance capital)
Delaware: chemists (DuPont)
D.C.: political scientists (duh!)
WV: miners
California: farm workers
Texas: petroleum engineers
Maine: loggers (lots of logging in the Allagash)
Georgia: textile workers (though I’m surprised, lots of mills have closed)
What’s the definition of a “disproportionately popular job”?
As an Indiana University grad, seeing Indiana be boilermakers fills me with unspeakable rage