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Larry
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Topic: Population Snapshot Posted: 16 Sep 2010 at 03:50 |
Thought it'd be interesting to show a graph of the data I have available. X axis is population, y axis is number of towns ABOVE that population.
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Aelfric
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Posted: 18 Sep 2010 at 12:43 |
Nice work, Larry.
Now we know population growth is not represented by a diminishing return curve. :)
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The Con Orc
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 02:33 |
that doesnt seem like it covers the entire illyriad towns..
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King EAM
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 13:29 |
The Con Orc wrote:
that doesnt seem like it covers the entire illyriad towns.. |
Only towns up to 3500 population, I think but you get the idea.
Edited by King EAM - 11 Dec 2010 at 13:30
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The Con Orc
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 16:56 |
well even then, like the towns that have 0 population, i'm pretty confident there are more towns than shown
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surferdude
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 20:31 |
The Con Orc wrote:
that doesnt seem like it covers the entire illyriad towns.. |
Since it was posted in september and its now december - probably not...
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fluffy
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 22:22 |
King EAM wrote:
The Con Orc wrote:
that doesnt seem like it covers the entire illyriad towns.. |
Only towns up to 3500 population, I think but you get the idea.
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read again. The x axis is the population of the town, the y axis is the number of towns, so theres 3500 towns with a pop of over some number(100?)
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Larry
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Posted: 13 Dec 2010 at 04:13 |
An updated version. In this case each dot is a population delta of 50, starting with a minimum of 50 as the 15k towns with a population less than that made the detail in the rest of the graph hard to discern.
Open image in new tab for larger view.
Below is the slightly more interesting graph that only looks at towns over 1000 population.
Edited by Larry - 13 Dec 2010 at 16:04
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The Con Orc
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Posted: 13 Dec 2010 at 15:27 |
How did you figure all this out?
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Guitar Jesus!
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Larry
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Posted: 13 Dec 2010 at 15:56 |
Way back in May I wrote a parser to go over the datafile_towns.xml file and turn them into objects. The result is all parsed and made publicly available at http://illyriad.heroku.com
To get those particular numbers, I just did:
numbers = (0...30000).step(50).collect { |n| Town.population_greater_than(n).population_less_than(n+50).size } |
Yay ruby. Also that graph had an accidental error, now fixed.
Edited by Larry - 13 Dec 2010 at 16:05
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