I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait ( talk) 07:13, 14 January 2015 (UTC)Ĭlearly it means that the furries are, in general, Martha Stewart fans, not the reverse. It means that to people who give motivational talks to people who want to sell you things, all the people included in such maps are called prospects or prospective customers. that all the subscribers to Martha Stweart Living are secretly furries? *gasp* 129.97.124.23 23:00, 23 November 2012 (UTC) Pet peeve #208: Geographic profile maps which are basically just population mapsĪdd a comment! ⋅ add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ refresh comments! Discussion Transcript Cueball: The business implications are clear. The title text reflects a similar situation in world maps where the website written in English is read by English-speaking users no matter the location, because their ISP and search providers direct them primarily to English websites, so the visitors' geographic graph matches the graph of the global English-speaking population. In this comic, red represents the highest numerical values, then yellow and green, with white the lowest values, in all three maps.

It does not necessarily have anything to do with heat, but a heatmap may resemble a thermal image. However, Cueball's analysis is faulty the actual reason the maps are the same is they all match the population concentration in the U.S., not because there is any statistically-significant relation between geographic location and any of the mentioned sub-populations.Ī heatmap is a graph showing three-dimensional data on a two-dimensional image, with each pixel's color representing the value of the data at that position. In the comic, Cueball compares three heatmaps, showing the location of 'our site's users,' 'subscribers to Martha Stewart Living' and 'consumers of furry pornography.' The three maps are nearly identical, leading Cueball to come to the conclusion that his site's userbase largely consists of fans of Martha Stewart and furry porn, and that the audience (presumably the owners/operators of the website) should adjust their content or advertising to cater to these demographics.

This one has also been numbered #208, like the first comic on the subject 238: Pet Peeve #114. Title text: There are also a lot of global versions of this map showing traffic to English-language websites which are indistinguishable from maps of the location of internet users who are native English speakers.Īnother of Randall's many Pet Peeves, this time on maps.

Us population density heat map