30 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 3 Mar \ parent \ on: A dozen completely random things I learned this week: mostly_harmless
Yeah, how you carve up the geography matters a lot. I always wondered if there was some underlying order to it. Certainly what you decide counts as NYC is not intuitive, as the whole Eastern seaboard feels like one giant city.
They use statistical clustering based on commute patterns. Once there's enough overlap, two metro areas get merged into one. That's the case for Baltimore and DC, for instance.
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