How Engineers and Scientists Cluster In the U.S.

First time accepted submitter DERoss writes "The National Science Foundation has published a research paper titled Regional Concentrations of Scientists and Engineers In the United States. The lead paragraph contains the sentence 'The three most populous states — California, Texas, and New York — together accounted for more than one-fourth of all S&E employment in the United States.' According to the 2010 census, however, those three states also contain more than one-fourth (26.5%) percent of the U.S. population. In other words, there is no concentration beyond how the general population is concentrated." The clustering is studied with finer granularity than the per-state level, though, and the paper names several places (like the Santa Clara area, and Houston) where such jobs are particularly prevalent.

Re:What is the point?

[ShanghaiBill]

Can someone please explain to me what the point of this is?

The point is to give someone an excuse to post a link to the relevant xkcd [xkcd.com].

Interactive map

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Here is an interactive map showing where computer and mathematical occupations are overrepresented [city-data.com].