How did you decide what the choropleth regions would be? They don’t correspond to counties, state or federal congressional districts, or any other obvious regional divider I’ve thought of. It feels like it makes very little sense for a region named “Greater Portland Area” to go all the way to the Nevada border, and that’s just a region I’m familiar with — I’m sure folks in other places have similar questions about regions they’re familiar with.
That Pay Choropleth guy really gets around.
choropleth is a great term, thanks for introducing me to it.
This is the kinda shit a Software Engineer *would* create
I’m very confused how there are any <50k locations at all.
Are these part-time workers? Entry level pay for an engineer in a low cost of living area is above 50k!
and that’s why I’m moving to san Francisco
I’d be curious to see the pay compared to a cost of living index. As somebody living in NYC, I know that makes a big difference.
This is not beautiful, having like 6 different shades of green. I had a lot of trouble figuring out which green is which.
This reminds me of the wall of paint color at Home Depot where there is like 8 versions of every color that look very similar, even white.
The only obvious ones at a glance were the purple and the yellow.
They should have instead added more colors Purple, Dark blue, light blue, dark green, light green, yellow, red.
Instead we have 6 shades of green (dark green, dark dark green, light green, light light green, light light light green) that covers most of the map.
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The compensation data is sourced from [Levels.fyi](http://levels.fyi/), and the tools I used to create this are Leaflet.js, OpenStreetMap, Nielsen DMA regional GeoJSON borders (https://github.com/PublicaMundi/MappingAPI/blob/master/data/geojson/us-states.json), HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The map is filtered to the 75th percentile of total compensation for software engineers in each region.
You can view the heatmap live at [https://levels.fyi/heatmap/](https://levels.fyi/heatmap/)
What’s going on in East Tennessee?
How did you decide what the choropleth regions would be? They don’t correspond to counties, state or federal congressional districts, or any other obvious regional divider I’ve thought of. It feels like it makes very little sense for a region named “Greater Portland Area” to go all the way to the Nevada border, and that’s just a region I’m familiar with — I’m sure folks in other places have similar questions about regions they’re familiar with.
That Pay Choropleth guy really gets around.
choropleth is a great term, thanks for introducing me to it.
This is the kinda shit a Software Engineer *would* create
I’m very confused how there are any <50k locations at all.
Are these part-time workers? Entry level pay for an engineer in a low cost of living area is above 50k!
and that’s why I’m moving to san Francisco
I’d be curious to see the pay compared to a cost of living index. As somebody living in NYC, I know that makes a big difference.
This is not beautiful, having like 6 different shades of green. I had a lot of trouble figuring out which green is which.
This reminds me of the wall of paint color at Home Depot where there is like 8 versions of every color that look very similar, even white.
The only obvious ones at a glance were the purple and the yellow.
They should have instead added more colors
Purple, Dark blue, light blue, dark green, light green, yellow, red.
Instead we have 6 shades of green (dark green, dark dark green, light green, light light green, light light light green) that covers most of the map.