I'll hold my hands up and say for the sake of the infographic we had to use different zoom levels, I'll make sure to do it better next time!
Just did a quick screenshot using the same zoom level on our internal tool if you'd like to compare Great Britain with Belgium if anyone's interested. As a whole, I'd still say Belgium's connectivity is better, but obviously it's a smaller country so will be easier to get full coverage.

I didn't expect galicia to be such a public transport powerhouse

Personally , I’d avoid any bank catering to money laundering and crony investing.

These are all kinda population density maps, because all of these countries have solid public transport

Belgium is less than a quarter the land area of England.

This shows density, but with no regard for scale. Also no accounting for where people live - i.e. population distribution and density.

r/dataismisleading

It's quite similar to population density maps for Spain - you can see similar patterns here too https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1610307502553370627?t=1gcobn_UITwz6SNCZUtHAQ&s=19

I’ve never heard of the SPM, very interesting. Thanks, OP.

Why does Spain only have that one corner done? It can't be that people only live there, can it?

We should try this next! We have an internal tool that maps our public transport providers in the US so thought I'd share the screenshot.

Spoiler: it's quite sparse!

You clearly have very poor data sources for Italy

Agreed! Population would help us understand transport demand, whilst geography will impact where stations can be located.

Just want to check I'm answering correctly, what do you mean as underserved? As the maps were created by pinpointing where public transport stops are, and a surrounding 15 min walking area, locations where there's large bodies of water would not be coloured purple as there's no station.

True, but then Switzerland would look very different. It’s less about cost and more about need.

And the US?

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Mississippi has the highest official poverty rate, but when adjusted for cost of living it drops "all the way down" to fourth highest (including DC).

I downvoted because I am tired of seeing personal finance Sankey thingies. I don't find them interesting. Your assumption is wrong.

Thanks. I'll have our data team look into it but most likely if they're spaced out, once we zoomed it out and exported at a country level it wasn't too visible.

And orography. Spain is hilly af. It affects the cost of railroads.

Hmm and now are large bodies of water handled? Doesn't seem like they're handled very well, eg Sweden and Switzerland are full of lakes that on your map look like undeserved areas

But for example the Sorrento peninsula is almost empty, despite the fact that it has a dense public transport network.

The database does include Campania transport networks. The reason it looks so different is because of transport density - whilst there are transport routes in this area, it's not dense. In the visualisation each stop only has a 15 minute walking catchment area around it, so if the stops are few and far between, at the zoom level it won't show a lot of coverage. You can see when you open up the map in more detail here that there are routes in the area.

Mississippi not winning this battle?

And after 8 interviews they're going to offer 50k£ in London area...

The SPM, first released in 2011 and produced with support from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), extends the official poverty measure by taking account of many government programs that are designed to assist low-income families but are not included in the official poverty measure. The SPM also includes federal and state taxes and work and medical expenses. In addition, the SPM accounts for geographic variation in poverty thresholds, while the official poverty measure does not.

Census website that has the report data, including useful statistics such as official poverty measure by state, margins of error, and further information on how poverty data is collected in the census: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-277.html

The map was created using MapChart.

It would be interesting to correlate this with population density. Like, Spain looks pretty empty until you realise that the population is actually focused mostly around few big cities, while Germany had lots of villages and small towns throughout its area.