In this post, we are going to look at two general questions. First, what areas of the country do basketball players come from. Second, what areas of the country are true basketball hotbeds?
A key concern whenever we start graphing spatial data is whether all we are actually doing is mapping the underlying general population. You may recall that we wrote an article highlighting just that problem a few months ago. In the image below, we show the total number of recruits by state from 2003 to the Present.
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There are three caveats to this map.