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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

More Perl fun: Do the number of Sam's Clubs in a state correlate to its Obesity rates?

I wrote yet another perl script that scrapes data off walmart's webpage in order to see if there is a correlation between the number of Sam's Clubs in the state and the state's obesity rates. As you can see in the scatterplot below, there is... surprisingly, no correlation! :)

scatterplot:


Map visualization:

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