my own world heat map
some northumbrian pipes, a first here i think.
i decided to continue the data analysis i started in my previous post. this time, i decided to go full subjective and will not try to extract any scientific conclusions. i decided to test my ratings versus geography, and made a “heat map” of how much i like people of each nationality. this chart is a bit clunky, but gives us a good global perspective. blue is lower, red is higher, yellow is in-between. sorry new zealand, my zoom skills cut a bit of the map!
interestingly enough, i don’t seem to rate central europeans as high as, let’s say, eastern europeans. same thing with anglo saxon countries: us rates high, as does australia. i think we can remove the language barrier, since there are rating differences between austria and germany and i don’t speak german. also, best rated? my own country but my sample is biased: i only hosted, with one exception to this, friends and friends of friends, who i ended up rating higher than the average CSer. since the map doesn’t show sample size, we might be dealing with a lot of anomalies.
since these looked promising, here are the rating curves by country. watch out: a lot of graphs coming. it’s very nice to see that bell curves emerge on big sample sizes: that means i’m not particulary favorable to any country. but it’s also interesting that some countries provoke a more variable response, versus others. for example, compare canada to germany. as usual, no evidence for being favorable to any particular country. Y axis is the total frequency, X axis is the rating.
here are the sources for replication (besides the database on my previous post): heat map and country charts. i love the discouraged if/foreach syntax for php. sorry but that’s what you get for free personal code.