Weird Map

I recently had a conversation with a friend over something odd.  If the largest stadium were full, what size city would it be, and would it be the largest city in the state.

As it turns out when full, Mountaineer Field in West Virginia is the largest City in West Virginia. Probably most surprising is FedEx Field is the second largest city in Maryland (well in years where the 'Skins aren't completely terrible.)

I put together a map illustrating the relation between stadiums and states.

Stadium Capacity City Rank State Home team Mountaineer Field 60540 1 West Virginia West Virginia Mountaineers Aloha Stadium 50000 2 Hawaiʻi Hawaiʻi Warriors FedExField 79000 2 Maryland Washington 'Skins Commonwealth Stadium 67606 3 Kentucky Kentucky Wildcats Vaught-Hemingway Stadium 60580 3 Mississippi Ole Miss Rebels Memorial Stadium 91000 3 Nebraska Nebraska Cornhuskers War Memorial Stadium 32580 3 Wyoming Wyoming Cowboys Bryant-Denny Stadium 101821 4 Alabama Alabama Crimson Tide Sullivan Arena 8935 4 Alaska Razorback Stadium 76000 4 Arkansas Arkansas Razorbacks Delaware Stadium 22000 4 Delaware Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens Beaver Stadium 106572 4 Pennsylvania Penn State Nittany Lions Memorial Stadium 82000 4 South Carolina Clemson Tigers Notre Dame Stadium 80795 5 Indiana Notre Dame Fighting Irish Kinnick Stadium 70585 6 Iowa Iowa Hawkeyes Tiger Stadium 102321 6 Louisiana LSU Tigers Fargodome 25000 6 North Dakota Oklahoma Memorial Stadium 82112 6 Oklahoma Oklahoma Sooners Lambeau Field 80978 6 Wisconsin Green Bay Packers Washington–Grizzly Stadium 25200 7 Montana Montana Grizzlies Sam Boyd Stadium 36800 7 Nevada UNLV Rebels Ohio Stadium 104944 7 Ohio Ohio State Buckeyes Coughlin-Alumni Stadium 15000 7 South Dakota Neyland Stadium 102455 7 Tennessee Tennessee Volunteers Yale Bowl 64269 8 Connecticut Yale Bulldogs Sanford Stadium 92746 8 Georgia Georgia Bulldogs Michigan Stadium 109901 8 Michigan Michigan Wolverines University Stadium 40094 8 New Mexico New Mexico Lobos Ralph Wilson Stadium 73967 8 New York Buffalo Bills Bronco Stadium 37000 9 Idaho Boise State Broncos KSU Stadium 52200 9 Kansas Kansas State Wildcats Metrodome 64111 9 Minnesota Minnesota Vikings Arrowhead Stadium 76416 9 Missouri Kansas City Chiefs Centennial Field 4400 9 Vermont LaVell Edwards Stadium 64045 10 Utah BYU Cougars Harold Alfond Sports Stadium 10000 11 Maine Autzen Stadium 53800 11 Oregon Oregon Ducks Sun Devil Stadium 73378 12 Arizona Arizona State Sun Devils MetLife Stadium 82500 12 New Jersey New York Giants Lane Stadium 66233 12 Virginia Virginia Tech Hokies Bank of America Stadium 73778 13 North Carolina Carolina Panthers Mile High Stadium 76125 14 Colorado Denver Broncos Gillette Stadium 68756 14 Massachusetts New England Patriots Husky Stadium 72500 16 Washington Washington Huskies Brown Stadium 20000 18 Rhode Island Brown Bears Memorial Stadium 62872 20 Illinois Illinois Fighting Illini Ben Hill Griffin Stadium 88548 23 Florida Florida Gators Memorial Field 13000 24 New Hampshire Kyle Field 102512 33 Texas Texas A&M Aggies Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 93607 105 California USC Trojans

Liam '14

History of Marriage Equality

UPDATE:

***Due to the inexplicable intervention of the Supreme Court late last night, marriage equality has been delayed in Kansas. I have updated .gif to reflect the accuracy of the history.***

I put together this .gif file based on the date when marriage equality reached some sort of res judicata, and people were able to actually get married in those states.

A brief history of marriage 2004-2014

Miles to go and all that Jizz Jazz. Texas and Arkansas are due soon, and Montana and South Carolina have no excuse to deny marriage equality a single day longer.

All that is left of interest is what the Supreme Court will do with the 6th Circuit, since they clearly did done fuck up. Remand it to the 6th en banc, reverse without comment? I dont know.

I probably won't go through the decision because of the possibility of an anger seizure from the stupidity.


Liam '14

Ugh Damn You Idaho...

... because now I have to update the marriage map to include Alaska and Idaho.

Bastards making me do work.


Liam '14

"Virginia is for Buttfuckers" Probably Won't be Their New Slogan

On October 6, the Supreme Court denied cert. to the 490 kagillion 7 marriage cases before the Court. 

I celebrate the fact that on Monday morning, 58.92 percent of the country will have full access to consensual marriage based off of 2013 population projections.

Prior to last week’s non-decision-decision, I listed several reasons as to why this will be a historically significant failure of the Court. In around two years it appears that every jurisdiction in the United States will acknowledge marriage equality, without the Supreme Court acting.

In the upcoming months after Texas and Florida (and a few other stragglers) recognize marriage equality, around 89.90 percent will be able to, with consent, marry whomever they choose. 

But that still means that tomorrow, around 40 percent of gay people will have fewer rights than heterosexuals on death row. It also means that due to the timing, there will be no decision like Loving v. Virginia for gays. The Roberts Court will not be viewed by kindly by history over their non-decision, like the Warren Court. There is no apology for 230 years of legal discrimination.

I am reposting this graphic created by Randall Munroe at xkcd.com, who created a graphic that explains my feelings better than what words can express.

http://xkcd.com/1431/

Go to xkcd.com for more fabulous cartoons.

Liam ‘14

Let's Welcome Kentucky to the 21st Century

Today the Courts ruled in favor of in-state marriages. Yay!

So let's update the mother fuckin' map.

Boom!

Stay issued of course, but onward we march.

Liam '14

Update: Kitchen Upheld and Indiana WIns Big

The 10th Circuit Court in a 2-1 decision, issued a broad ruling upholding the District court ruling. A stay was also issued until Certiorari . As a result marriage equality has spread throughout the entire 10th Circuit, but due to the stay, marriages will not be granted, unless the state officials in the other marriage lawsuits dismiss their cases.

Also Indiana surprised everyone when a Federal Judge struck down the state marriage ban. And immediately people were gay married. Like in less than an hour. I mean crap, I couldn't find my birth certificate in less than an hour. So good for them.  Their marriage may have set some new ground speed record or something.

Anyway, to celibate today's wins I have update the map:

So Mazel Tov to the handsome grooms of Indiana.


Liam '14

Achievement is to Blank as Liberal is to Blank

I woke up this morning, and I was curious to see if I could put together a map of how states performed on the SATs and the ACTs.  It is fairly complicated, because some universities use the SATs, while others use the ACTs, and it depends on which state they are locate. A large number of students leave their home-states further complicating the system. The way I came up with to solve the problem was to take the SAT average and convert it into an ACT equivalent system and then weighted the average by the percent of students to take each test.

Top Percentile for 2013: 

State	Percent of Graduates Tested	Average Composite Score	SAT Participation Rate	ACT Equivalent	Weighted Average
New Hampshire	19	23.8	70	23.67	23.69775
Massachusetts	22	24.1	83	23.49	23.61781
Minnesota	74	23	6	27.0675	23.30506
Washington	21	22.8	60	23.355	23.21111
Connecticut	27	24	85	22.95	23.20313
Vermont	26	23	61	23.2875	23.20158

Followed by:

State	Percent of Graduates Tested	Average Composite Score	SAT Participation Rate	ACT Equivalent	Weighted Average
Virginia	26	22.6	71	23.175	23.02088
New Jersey	23	23	78	22.9725	22.97876
Oregon	34	21.5	49	23.4	22.62169
California	26	22.2	57	22.725	22.56054
Pennsylvania	18	22.7	71	22.455	22.50455
New York	26	23.4	76	22.185	22.49471
Maryland	21	22.3	73	22.4325	22.4029
Ohio	72	21.8	17	24.84	22.38067
Wisconsin	71	22.1	4	26.8875	22.35533
Iowa	66	22.1	3	26.8425	22.3062
Rhode Island	14	22.7	72	22.0725	22.17465
Kansas	75	21.8	6	26.64	22.15852
Indiana	38	21.7	70	22.3425	22.11644
Alaska	37	21.1	52	22.7925	22.08888
South Dakota	78	21.9	3	26.8425	22.08306
Montana	72	21.3	25	24.2775	22.0674
Missouri	74	21.6	4	26.7975	21.86654
Nevada	32	21.3	48	22.185	21.831
Nebraska	84	21.5	4	26.2575	21.71625

The Lowest Half:

State	Percent of Graduates Tested	Average Composite Score	SAT Participation Rate	ACT Equivalent	Weighted Average
Texas	37	20.9	59	21.96	21.55146
Georgia	51	20.7	75	21.9825	21.46339
Hawaii	40	20.1	64	22.1625	21.36923
Arizona	50	19.6	35	23.6025	21.24809
South Carolina	51	20.4	64	21.8475	21.20557
Maine	8	23.5	95	20.9025	21.10425
Oklahoma	75	20.8	5	25.65	21.10313
Colorado	100	20.4	14	26.0775	21.09724
Idaho	49	22.1	99	20.5425	21.05816
West Virginia	63	20.6	15	22.8375	21.03029
Utah	100	20.7	6	25.5375	20.97382
Illinois	100	20.6	5	27.3825	20.92298
District of Columbia	38	20.4	91	21.1275	20.9132
Florida	74	19.6	67	22.095	20.78557
Delaware	15	22.9	100	20.43	20.75217
Alabama	78	20.4	7	24.255	20.71747
North Dakota	98	20.5	2	27.405	20.6381
New Mexico	70	19.9	12	24.6375	20.59329
Arkansas	90	20.2	4	25.695	20.43383
Michigan	100	19.9	4	27	20.17308
North Carolina	100	18.7	62	22.5225	20.16293
Wyoming	100	19.8	4	26.3025	20.0501
Tennessee	100	19.5	8	25.7175	19.96056
Kentucky	100	19.6	5	26.3025	19.91917
Louisiana	100	19.5	5	24.9525	19.75964
Mississippi	95	18.9	3	25.0875	19.08941

Here is how it looks when mapped out:

2013 SAT/ACT Score by State

I then broke it down by Quartile: 

2013 SAT/ACT Score by State

I then broke it down by Half:

2013 SAT/ACT Score by State

I then pulled a map over laying the Half map and a map of state legislature by controlling party:

SAT/ACT Political Overlay Map 

There are obvious flaws in my methodology. There are also larger questions of socio-economic factors playing a more responsible factor in the systematic educational success of a population, and so forth. At the same time, I do believe this simple map is at the heart of the fundamental american dynamic.


Liam '14