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The map made just shows where at least 1 person lives, it doesn't show density. The calc he did takes into account pop. density. The many more people in Toronto as opposed to the plains is accounted for, even if it isn't shown on the map.
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Replying to @wayner99 @tombielecki and 2 others
that is just 10km Canadian census 10km squares with at least 1 person, they're not used to calculate the point
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Michigan's Upper Peninsula is also the industrial center of Canada. Which makes sense, statistically, because of the available workforce that should be there. But if the center of their pollutants is there too the US gov't really ought to do something.
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it's the mean center of population (mean coordinates, weighted by population) - similar to the way economic centre of gravity is calculated, which has as it happens been tracking across the UP for some time e.g. escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/hq37
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I’m curious exactly what was done to compute this, as a technical matter. With the bulk of Canada’s population in Ontario and points east, this is a bit of a surprising result. I would have thought the mean population center would be closer to Toronto.
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It makes sense to me, it's 500 miles from Toronto, and a couple thousand from Vancouver. The density of the population around Toronto/Ottowa pulls it very far away from the Pacific coast population centers.
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No it isn't population density, it's just where anyone lives. But the calculation was made using population density.
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