[ai09]

HN,

I created this analysis to get another view of entrepreneurial activity in the US.

On a tech note, these graphs were created with Protovis, a JS toolkit discussed recently here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808334 Since Protovis and IE don't yet work well together (IE9 may change that), the page degrades for IE users to show PNGs instead of the JS SVGs.

The inspiration for this visualization came from the Stanford Visualization Group's choropleth here: http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/choropleth.html

I would appreciate comments and feedback! Thank you.

[pg]

It seems like the rankings are mostly an artifact of where state borders happen to be. Why don't you do it based on smaller regions, like metropolitan areas?

[ai09]

Thanks, Paul. I'm doing some of that as well by geocoding all the filings. For instance, here are the most recent filings from California, geocoded down to the exact address:

http://www.formds.com/filings/advanced_filter?filters_params...