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Where Does Minnesota End?

Where Does Minnesota End? | Do Geography Lab Do Geography Lab · Cultural Regions Where Does Minnesota End? State borders are exact. Cultural borders are negotiated, layered, and often blurry. Change the evidence, redraw the region, and discover how every map of culture is also an argument about what counts. The regional wager If Minnesota is a cultural region, should its cultural boundary match the state line? The answer depends partly on Minnesota—and partly on which Minnesota you decide to look for. 1. Predict 2. Change the layer 3. Build a region 4. Choose the imagery 5. Decide A geographical question Are regions discovered in the landscape, or constructed from selected evidence? A necessary warning No score in this lab measures who is “truly Minnesotan.” 01 Prediction What do you expect before changing the map? Choose the claim that seems most plausible. Keep it in mind while the evidence refuses to sit still. The st...
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Covid Geographic Diffusion Interactive

How Does a Pandemic Travel? | Do Geography Lab Do Geography Lab · Spatial Diffusion How Does a Pandemic Travel? Follow COVID-19 across the United States, test whether distance predicts its arrival, and discover why a pandemic moves through networks, institutions, and unequal systems of surveillance—not simply across empty space. The central wager If disease spreads from person to person, should the map expand outward like a ripple? COVID-19 offers a rare test because several diffusion processes operated at once. 1. Predict 2. Follow the waves 3. Test distance 4. Build an S-curve 5. Decide A geographical question Which connections matter when something contagious moves among places? Read every map twice Reported cases measure surveillance as well as infection. 01 Prediction Choose your model before seeing the evidence Do not search for a pattern after you already know the answer. Make a prediction that the map can disappoint. ...
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game: Geography and Central Place Theory

Take Me Out to the Ball Game | Do Geography Lab Do Geography Lab · Urban Systems Take Me Out to the Ball Game Major League Baseball may eventually grow from 30 clubs to 32. Where should the next two teams go? Build a market, draw its territory, and discover why the neat geometry of central-place theory collides with the unruly geography of actual cities. EXPANSION COMMITTEE 30 clubs now 32 possible future YOUR PICKS · 0 /2 1. Find the threshold 2. Draw the market 3. Break the model 4. Award the teams Central-place theory asks How large a market is needed to support a high-order function? The geographical trap A city’s population is not the same thing as its market. 01 Threshold How many people does a team need? Set three assumptions. The model calculates the minimum market needed to sustain your attendance target. Annual attendance target 2.4 million Games attended per fan 2.4 per year Residents likely t...
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