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Comment by minervawes | Hacker News Reader

Can this be divided per drawer's country? I'd love to see how Americans draw the world map, versus, say, British or German.

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I do not collect user data so currently this is not possible.

I could ask as an opt-in as it would be interesting for sure

You could likely cluster individuals by drawn features; might not tells us much about geographic origin but may reveal interesting differences/levels in geographic aptitude, and which clusters correspond best to what land borders/contintents.

You can already see below the map the per country drawings and stats, and I will for sure use this data to produce new viz along the way

Yeah, I think that would be neat.

Started doing it with a modal asking players to provide the info after reading the comment. Already more than 1k drawings in with the data

I'd be curious about the same thing but with world capitals, and high school math. Especially by generation, not just country.

You hear a lot of things (both positive and negative) about various countries and their education, it would be interesting to see some actual data.

One unsurprising trend I have noticed is that countries that value education more highly, put more effort (and more money) into it.

This is one of my long term goals with my site

Collect user-generated data (drawings, answers) through games and interactive pages, then measure the results and compare to open data sets or against common conceptions

My county in the US, the level that manages education, is a rectangle.

well it would scratch my itch of curiosity but i think it would be a cool experiment survey type thing cuz we'd know how people from deferent regions perceive and understand other countries

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