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[Hitchhiker 42]

Originally Posted by rwodonnell

I started looking at where our team might attend, and made a map to visualize the location of the NEFIRST events. I put the teams in as a layer to see the rough distribution (teams are from 2016, TBA data), and thought other teams might be interested in saving the work.

Just wondering about the map - I can't seem to find 3654 on it. Same with 3525 in Waterbury. Is it put down as 1 team/per town max because Middletown, CT hosts at least two. Just might change the densities of teams.

[rwodonnell]

Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42

Just wondering about the map - I can't seem to find 3654 on it. Same with 3525 in Waterbury. Is it put down as 1 team/per town max because Middletown, CT hosts at least two. Just might change the densities of teams.

Yes. Unfortunately, the data from TBA that was easy for me only has city and state. When I imported them into the map, it stacks teams from the same city. If you click on the down arrow below the "teams.csv" layer, it will list all the teams that have a dot there. Cities like Middletown and Waterbury (from the teams you mentioned) and of course Boston (6 teams), Worcester (4 teams) and others will look like they just have one dot.

This does have the effect of improperly showing less team density in certain areas. If I could figure out how to have it put a number on those, or change the size of the dot, I would. If anyone has a CSV file of the teams in NE that includes a street address, I will import that and that should fix the problem, save for teams with the exact same street address (if there are any).

[Hitchhiker 42]

Originally Posted by rwodonnell

Yes. Unfortunately, the data from TBA that was easy for me only has city and state. When I imported them into the map, it stacks teams from the same city. If you click on the down arrow below the "teams.csv" layer, it will list all the teams that have a dot there. Cities like Middletown and Waterbury (from the teams you mentioned) and of course Boston (6 teams), Worcester (4 teams) and others will look like they just have one dot.

This does have the effect of improperly showing less team density in certain areas. If I could figure out how to have it put a number on those, or change the size of the dot, I would. If anyone has a CSV file of the teams in NE that includes a street address, I will import that and that should fix the problem, save for teams with the exact same street address (if there are any).

Thanks, that clears that up!

[ahartnet]

Originally Posted by rwodonnell

Yes. Unfortunately, the data from TBA that was easy for me only has city and state. When I imported them into the map, it stacks teams from the same city. If you click on the down arrow below the "teams.csv" layer, it will list all the teams that have a dot there. Cities like Middletown and Waterbury (from the teams you mentioned) and of course Boston (6 teams), Worcester (4 teams) and others will look like they just have one dot.

This does have the effect of improperly showing less team density in certain areas. If I could figure out how to have it put a number on those, or change the size of the dot, I would. If anyone has a CSV file of the teams in NE that includes a street address, I will import that and that should fix the problem, save for teams with the exact same street address (if there are any).

If you put the data in google sheets, you can do the map marker and you'll have bubbles sized to the # of teams there. I recently downloaded Tableau (that's what the person who did the map for Michigan team density did and it looked great) to do the same there though, because with the google sheets map, it's "smallest" size is the continental US. Which is workable for mapping teams in Texas. probably not so much so NE. *EDIT* - here's a link to my google sheet for reference: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...5mQ/edit#gid=0 - it takes a long time to load because it basically does a search for every one of the cities

[rwodonnell]

Originally Posted by ahartnet

If you put the data in google sheets, you can do the map marker and you'll have bubbles sized to the # of teams there. I recently downloaded Tableau (that's what the person who did the map for Michigan team density did and it looked great) to do the same there though, because with the google sheets map, it's "smallest" size is the continental US. Which is workable for mapping teams in Texas. probably not so much so NE. *EDIT* - here's a link to my google sheet for reference: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...5mQ/edit#gid=0 - it takes a long time to load because it basically does a search for every one of the cities

Thanks for the tip - that's a good way to go about it. The map I made is made from "Google My Maps". I hadn't make a map in a google sheet before, I will have to give that a try.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Does anyone have any info on LI, HVR or Montreal, such as when dates will be officially be posted?

[Jay O'Donnell]

http://www.robotiquefirstquebec.org/...-de-robotique/
If this is accurate and my high school level French is correct, looks like Montreal is week 4.

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

http://www.robotiquefirstquebec.org/...-de-robotique/
If this is accurate and my high school level French is correct, looks like Montreal is week 4.

I guess they didn't get the memo that every event in the area is supposed to be week 3 this year. As much as we've been complaining in NY, Montreal teams have it even worse, having only the Montreal event to go to, and the only other driving distance event is hours away, across a border, and the next week. I bet TVR is going to get a good number of Montreal teams this year who used to compete for their second event in Ontario.

[logank013]

Any info on Queen City Regional information? I don't see it posted quite yet. Thanks

[guniv]

Originally Posted by logank013

Any info on Queen City Regional information? I don't see it posted quite yet. Thanks

I emailed them a while back after Rocket City and Smoky Mountains ended up on the same week. They didn't offer what week it would be, but Queen City will be moving from Cincinnati to Dayton because their venue is unavailable, they told me.

[Dominick Ferone]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

I guess they didn't get the memo that every event in the area is supposed to be week 3 this year. As much as we've been complaining in NY, Montreal teams have it even worse, having only the Montreal event to go to, and the only other driving distance event is hours away, across a border, and the next week. I bet TVR is going to get a good number of Montreal teams this year who used to compete for their second event in Ontario.

I have a big feeling TVR and FLR are going to get flooded with a lot of Canadian teams. I look forward to it, as it helps provide diversity and bring in all sorts of new levels of competition. With both events already being so strong with everyone so evenly matched, this year may be even harder and closer of an event unless someone has a super outside the box design that reins supreme.

[Christopher149]

FIM LSSU in Sault Ste. Marie has been posted.

[Brian Maher]

FIM District - Lake Superior State University Event and Idaho Regional have been posted for week 5.

[mwmac]

Was hoping Idaho would get moved to week 6 to facilitate more teams coming from Colorado & the SF Bay area. Last year the event hosted 30 teams with room for at least 12 more. Help fill the field... https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...548675_o.jp g

[TheBoulderite]

Originally Posted by mwmac

Was hoping Idaho would get moved to week 6 to facilitate more teams coming from Colorado & the SF Bay area. Last year the event hosted 30 teams with room for at least 12 more. Help fill the field... https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...548675_o.jp g

That's a shame it's Week 5. It'd be fun to come up there.