Added Google charts to the registry

In mid-2006 I did a geographical analysis of where the cars in my registry were located. It consisted of superimposing the counts per state over a map of the U.S. I used increasing size fonts to further emphasize. It was nice but it was a pain in the neck and I have never issued an update.

Last week I discovered Google charts while browsing a favorite site of mine which was showing their customers for the current day by state using a map through the Google charting service. I thought, “wouldn’t this be great for my registry.” So, I spent time over the last few days converting most of my tabular registry data into graphical form.

As an example, here are registrations of 1993 feature cars by state as of May 4, 2008 (the lighter the green the more cars).

I myself am a very visual person so I really get into this and find more value from it than tabular data. Although, not all statistics I am collecting made good charts. All of the raw numbers are still included either separate from the charts or included within the charts.

Currently, they do not do the Canadian provinces on maps. I could only do a world map with Canada and USA each as a whole. I thought this had limited value so I just stuck to the U.S. and hope not to offend our friends up north. If Google does start to offer more detail for Canada I will be sure to add it.

Be sure to check out my updated 1992 and 1993 registry stats in order to see the full makeover.