pic: Spread of US FIRST Teams

[Nica F.]

It looks like a couple trips need to be made to Nebraska and Kentucky!

And I also think Hawaii and Alaska should be on there.
Hopefully soon, we could create an interactive International mapping of FRC, FVC, and FLL teams.

[Elgin Clock]

Time to make some predictions.

My prediction for the next regional: Kansas City Kansas/Missouri. lol

(It would give me an excuse to go see some family out there if there was one in the future.)

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Nica F.

It looks like a couple trips need to be made to Nebraska and Kentucky!

And I also think Hawaii and Alaska should be on there.
Hopefully soon, we could create an interactive International mapping of FRC, FVC, and FLL teams.

One of those dots around Cincinnati is team 554 from Ft. Thomas, KY.

It is surprising that there are no teams in the Louisville or Knoxville areas.

[dlavery]

Hey look! I can see me waving!

Damian - very nice work. Another interesting overlay would be to show the location of the competition events. It would be a nice indicator of the correlation between event locations and team concentrations (and where future events should be located).

It would be harder to obtain the data, but it would also be very interesting to map the locations of teams that no longer exist, and when they dropped out of the program. Is there a geographic correlation between teams that drop out of the program and things like distance to nearest regional, distance to Manchester, regional of the country, etc.?

-dave

[The Lucas]

Very interesting.

One question about Arkansas. I see Bomb Squad in Mountain Home in northern AR but which team is in Central AR (around Little Rock)? I thought 16 was the only team in AR?

[Pavan Dave]

Wow. I'm surprised New Mexico is dark blue but has few first teams. That is very unfortunate.

*whispers*
I wonder what the correlation of robotics events and robotics teams (not just FIRST) there are, and if we could, get an idea of what is popular where, so we know where to send our artillery ex.Oklahoma - Botball
*/whispers*

Pavan

[Cory]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

Very interesting.

One question about Arkansas. I see Bomb Squad in Mountain Home in northern AR but which team is in Central AR (around Little Rock)? I thought 16 was the only team in AR?

Wasn't 356 or some number thereabouts in Arkansas?

[AdamHeard]

what about canada? there is a great deal of teams up there.

[Nica F.]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

what about canada? there is a great deal of teams up there.

There are indeed a great deal of FIRST teams in Canada but this is a Spread of the US FIRST teams.

Like I said in my earlier post though, It would be nice to have an international spread as well.

[Donut]

Originally Posted by Pavan

Wow. I'm surprised New Mexico is dark blue but has few first teams. That is very unfortunate.

*whispers*
I wonder what the correlation of robotics events and robotics teams (not just FIRST) there are, and if we could, get an idea of what is popular where, so we know where to send our artillery ex.Oklahoma - Botball
*/whispers*

Pavan

New Mexico is a big BEST area... maybe that has something to do with it? I think at least 2 of the 4 FIRST teams from there compete in BEST as well as FIRST.

[GaryVoshol]

A very interesting map.

Where you have conglomerations of teams (NE coast, SE Mich, CA cities, etc.) have the dots been offset so they all show up?

I'm thinking the conglomerations correspond more to population than to distance from regionals, with some very strong correlation to sponsors (Mich and KC, for example).

The map also shows potentials for growth - Louisville, Nashville and Memphis, for example.

Good work. Dots of another type coming your way.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Donut

That is a crazy awesome map. Really shows the effect that having a Regional in the area can have, just look at all those team clusters!

Originally Posted by GaryV1188

I'm thinking the conglomerations correspond more to population than to distance from regionals, with some very strong correlation to sponsors (Mich and KC, for example).

I'm thinking the latter is correct too.



I see a ton of metropolis' in the country (clusters of black dots), where there are very few, if any, FRC teams - especially in the middle states. Those are the areas where we should focus our new team efforts, as it is in these cities where there is large, untapped potential for growth.

[FIXIT]

This is great!

[Ninjitsu Banana]

I know I sound like a broken record, but this is a very cool map.

I just found Team 461...it's easy to find in Indiana because the three Purdue FIRST teams are three dots squished together.

[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Time to make some predictions.

My prediction for the next regional: Kansas City Kansas/Missouri. lol

(It would give me an excuse to go see some family out there if there was one in the future.)

I presume the "lol" is because there already is a KC Regional - 2007 was their inaugural year and was a smashing success...