The Geography of March Madness

Atlantic Cities: The Geography of March Madness

While you're filling out your expertly analyzed bracket, you might want to take a look at how March Madness fandom is spread across the country with this map from Facebook (via Gizmodo). Michael Bailey of Facebook's Data Science team analyzed the way "likes" are spread through teams and conferences, across the country—in similar fashion to this Super Bowl map. 

Here, for instance, Facebook looks at the conference divide. Bailey points out in his analysis how the ACC fan base is spread across the country, despite pockets of dominance for other conferences....

The article has other interesting maps as well.

Comments

[Kevin]

I live in Florida now, and I can tell you why the Big 10 has a huge presence here. ;-)