1227  Density of tango, geographically

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Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 12:43:41 -0400
From: Alan McPherron <mcph+@PITT.EDU>
Subject: Density of tango, geographically

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Bruce Stephens wrote:

> [snip]
> I think those are the two places that have a disproportionate amount
> of tango. For other places, it's basically according to the
> population (although some places seem oddly barren---the North West of
> England, for example, which seems to have only one milonga, even
> though Liverpool and Manchester and the surrounding places are pretty
> populous; equal to Edinburgh, I'd have thought, and Edinburgh has two
> or three milongas, IIRC).

Looks like an appropriate topic for a GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
study. If we find that, in places, it's not just "according to the
population", then we can move on to other hypotheses. I'm interested
because of my observation that Portland (OR) and Pittsburgh (PA), two
cities of roughly comparable population, differ by an order of magnitude
in "tango density".

-- Alan McPherron, Tangueros Unidos de Pittsburgh



Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 11:43 AM
Subject: [TANGO-L] Density of tango, geographically


> On Thu, 1 May 2003, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> > [snip]
> > I think those are the two places that have a disproportionate amount
> > of tango. For other places, it's basically according to the
> > population (although some places seem oddly barren---the North West of
> > England, for example, which seems to have only one milonga, even
> > though Liverpool and Manchester and the surrounding places are pretty
> > populous; equal to Edinburgh, I'd have thought, and Edinburgh has two
> > or three milongas, IIRC).
>
> Looks like an appropriate topic for a GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
> study. If we find that, in places, it's not just "according to the
> population", then we can move on to other hypotheses. I'm interested
> because of my observation that Portland (OR) and Pittsburgh (PA), two
> cities of roughly comparable population, differ by an order of magnitude
> in "tango density".
>
> -- Alan McPherron, Tangueros Unidos de Pittsburgh
>


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