Mapping America’s Most Sinful Cities

Posted Apr 10, 2008 to Mapping by Nathan  /  7 responses

Mapping America’s Most Sinful Cities

Forbes, with the help of Mavin Digital, ranked and mapped cities based on the seven deadly sins - lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride.

For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable proxy--murder rates for wrath, per capita billionaires for avarice--then culled the available data sources to rank the cities. Some of the results were surprising: Salt Lake City as America's Vainest City. Some were not: Detroit as America's Most Murderous.

It's always good to remember to take these with a grain of salt, since you don't really know much about the metrics used and how useful these metrics really are. Usually, rankings like these involve a lot of assumptions about the data.

They are of course still interesting and fun to look at though. Apparently, I moved from one America's most gluttonous cities to one of the most violent and lustful.

Gluttony

Lust

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7 responses to "Mapping America’s Most Sinful Cities"
  • Tony
    Apr 10, 2008, 9:40 am

    Nice… I’m with you Nathan. Baltimore is:
    Ranked #9 for Lust
    Ranked #2 for Wrath

    It’s hard to see the states when they are clustered in this version. The interactive one is a bit better to see the rank and state.


  • cw360
    Apr 10, 2008, 12:36 pm

    Oh Ya! Lets hear it for P-Town, #2 for lust!


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    Apr 10, 2008, 2:32 pm

    […] Mapping America’s Most Sinful Cities | FlowingData Forbes, with the help of Mavin Digital, ranked and mapped cities based on the seven deadly sins - lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. (tags: map infographic vice sins America Forbes) […]


  • Nathan
    Apr 10, 2008, 4:01 pm
    Author

    so so proud of my cities.


  • Tony2
    Apr 14, 2008, 12:31 pm

    Hmm.. Sin City isn’t living up to it’s reputation!


  • Nathan
    Apr 14, 2008, 12:55 pm
    Author

    @Tony2: good point. another sign to not take the metrics too seriously. my guess is that because gambling and prostitution are legal in vegas, it goes unaccounted for. very nice observation!


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