Batchgeo

We often hear the phrase "it's a small world," especially when realizing someone we just met as an adult was in the periphery of our life growing up. The US population is 322M people. The roster of the EDU 585 class is 22 people. 15 of us were born within a 50 mile radius of each other. However, I haven't met anyone from our class in person, that I can tell. It's also interesting that historically, the Washington DC area was always a transient area. This first map of the classes birth locations indicates that while some have moved into the area, a majority of the class was born and raised here:

Full Sized Map of EDU 585 Birth Locations

The strong majority of the class is from the east coast, with one lonesome dove hailing from Utah. The big cluster is from the Washington DC metropolitan area:

Washington DC Metropolitan Cluster

One aspect that would also be interesting to note for this class and project would have been birth years. I was born in 1976, and that the time, the US population was 218M people. It could have

been interesting to compare birth

locations by year and see how the demographic potentially changed. Part of my fascination with the amount of people in this class that were born in the DC area is I am used to people moving away from the area after a certain number of years. Growing up here, many of my friends were military, so they left after 2-3 years. It seemed like it wasn't until the late 1990's, when the tech industry became popular, that people were more settled here. Even with that in mind, I would expect the map to show more people born in other areas that eventually moved here. I hypothesize that this map would look different for a class of students that were studying IT or another computer related topic.