{"id":2014,"date":"2015-07-06T20:11:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T19:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2015-07-07T10:51:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T09:51:24","slug":"the-good-the-bad-072015-the-most-useless-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/the-good-the-bad-072015-the-most-useless-map\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good & the Bad [07\/2015]: The most useless Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe it is a bit too harsh to talk of the “most useless map”, but when I saw this map on the greek bail-out referendum this morning in the FAZ<\/a>, this was what first came to my mind<\/p>\n

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Well, yes the vote was without any doubt against the suggestion of the EU to solve the financial dilemma in Greece. But wouldn’t we like to probably learn a bit more – given that we get to see a map?<\/p>\n

Yes, the choice is relatively easy and I created a choropleth map, using the data from the FAZ map and some shapefile from the internet<\/a>. Nothing which is too hard, until I found out that the Greek use ‘k’, ‘c’ and ‘x’ equally likely to create what appear to be different names, but all mean the same (like Khios, Chios and Xiou) …\u00a0so matching the districts was what took most of the time<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Not that we get that a striking story now, but at least we see some structure now – but maybe my greek friends could help me out here with some deeper insight?!<\/p>\n

The only thing which I can read from the distribution of the votes over the districts is that the often claimed “big divide” in greek society is not really supported geographically, as we almost see a normal distribution.<\/p>\n

Drop me a line if you are interested in the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe it is a bit too harsh to talk of the “most useless map”, but when I saw this map on the greek bail-out referendum this morning in the FAZ, this was what first came to my mind Well, yes the vote was without any doubt against the suggestion of the EU to solve the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-the-good-the-bad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}