The North American Heatmap’s Strange Traits
Mans now has a green haze around North America. What’s up with that? Praise God and let’s get into it.
Info the Heatmap Revealed
The data visualization game is stepping up a level over here. After adding more features and improvements to this site, My House Stats is now equipped with a heatmap to let y’all know where that data is. If you zoom in to a city you’re curious about and you see some heat, or colours near that area, chances are there’s data that will teach you about that area. You’ll learn about your neighbourhood’s real estate market, things to do, and even get a virtual tour of the area. If you don’t see that heat, then there’s probably no data.
Interesting Discoveries of the Heatmap
The funniest thing that the heatmap revealed was how big the Boston metropolitan area is. Boston’s so big that it’s surrounding cities are in Vermont and reach almost all the way up to the border of Canada. The other interesting thing that the heatmap showed is that based on highly-populated American metropolitan areas, Denver has to be the loneliest metro of them all with how far it is from the other metros. Big ups for their Nuggets and Jokic for schooling err’body in the NBA Playoffs this past summer, even with the referees making it hard on them in that Lakers series. Seriously, who avoids getting rattled after seeing a one-legged three-pointer, that arcs all the way to the moon and hits nothing but net? Deion Sanders is also out here trying to recruit everybody to be on his college football team at the University of Colorado.
The Heatmap’s Many Uses
This has unlocked a giant door that was stubbornly hard to open, at least for us. Best part about this new feature is that it can visually reveal information about many other things, such as crime, unemployment, number of job postings, population, average house price or size, and many other things that you’d like to know about.
Who knows? Maybe you’ll see some mini-games going on for certain geographic locations. Something like Pokemon Go: My House Stats Edition. Let’s get it.
Life is on Hard Mode for a Growing Number of People & Families
Everybody’s in foul trouble when comes to having a roof over their head. Rent’s been going up. In Canada there’s news of mortgage rates going up which will push people out of their homes. Tent cities are on the come up, and that’s nothing to get hyped about. There are many alternative ways to get shelter, but it seems like they get penalized left and right. For example, in 2016 Elvis Summers made many tiny homes for people in Los Angeles, California to shelter in until the city sent them packing. He received over $100,000 worth of donations from around the world to build them. Sadly, Los Angeles city council member Curren Price requested his satination officials to destroy and confiscate the tiny homes. Another interesting example is how a couple in Vernon, British Columbia, sheltered in an RV on their own land. They were fined by the City of Vernon for unlawful occupation and not complying with BC Building Code regulations and standards. Soon people will run out of choices for shelter if alternative ways of shelter are also penalized.
Alternative Forms of Shelter May be the Solution
Consequently, you can learn about other, more affordable types of shelter or check out the more affordable cities in North America and migrate there for now. This game of life is not getting easier, and this seems to be true for a growing number of people. Hopefully this tool and knowledge of how to shelter yourself using alternative means will help.
What Else Do You Want to See?
Any other data that you’d like to see on My House Stats? If so, what is it? It’s good to know about what a neigbourhood looks like. Things like how much everybody in the hood makes, how common crime is in the area, how many job openings and vacancies there are, and more.
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