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It’s hard to know for sure since there’s no citation for the data source. If it’s strictly based on self-reporting then the latter makes sense.

You assign a color based on two end points, e.g. red/blue with an intensity based on what your coordinates are

Seeing how the islands population in 2021 was 99,258 and the amount of visitors they received in 2019 was 428 thousand I would say probably... Most definitely.

Edit: scratch that alcohol is just a very large part of their culture and most people home brew and on top of that it's very cheep to buy.

Thank you! I used to collect stamps; that’s the last time I recall hearing of the Seychelles

I wonder if the fact that it’s so tourism oriented brings up the alcohol figure, as they probably serve a large number of drinks to tourists. So the tourist consumption goes into the numerator but the tourist population doesn’t go into the denominator.

It's hard to plot two dimensions in a map. Maybe two separate maps, one for etoh and one for smoking?

Holy shit Arizona might actually be cold enough to wear long sleeves in, this is not a drill!

You'd have been better off doing this as a colored map. This is pretty damned unreadable

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Phil is probably just old and tired of having people wake him up in the middle of the morning.

idk, Phil isn't even that good at weather predicting — I doubt he would be able to manage an organized crime ring.

In practice, I think it means that if the sun is out it will see its shadow. You can get more of the lore on this page: https://groundhog-day.com/history-of-groundhog-day

Seychelles, it's a small island nation off the cost of the middle Eastern part of Africa.

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No you fool. Now Phil will know where to send the hithogs!

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It’s not even hitting record lows in those areas of Canada.

So it’s cold, but not something to care about, unless you live there.

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I’ll probably know it as soon as you say it, but who is SYC?

Fair point. Regions can be tricky. I used the region variable from the countrycodes::codelist.

Maybe numbers and legend would work

I'm unsure where you are from, so this is a US perspective.

First I like the data

If you are going to use North America, I would choose to use Central America and not latin America.

Mexico would be part of both which is slightly confusing