Last one to leave Ohio, turn out the lights

    Living in Myrtle Beach, SC, is pretty cool for a Native Ohioan.  I spent 38 of my  44 years living there.  Five and a half of those I was living in Wiesbaden Germany, and Newport News, VA while in the Air Force, and the last eight months, we've been living in Myrtle Beach.  The more time I spend in Myrtle Beach, the more Ohio license plates I see and the more I wonder "Is anyone left in Ohio?"

   One of the cool things about Ohio is they have a county sticker on their plates, where each of the 88 counties is assigned a number.   Because they are numbers, it's hard to know where people are from, so being a Data Artist, I thought I'd make it a "family game" to keep track of  the county numbers, and at the same time, without being too scientific, create a viz to see where the most people in Ohio are coming from, at least the one's that we see.

   The method behind the madness is simple.  If we are out and about, and we see an Ohio plate, we note the county number, then we update the data.  Cars can, and probably will be counted twice, because we're not keeping track of license plate numbers, the kind of car or anything like that, even though that might provide some interesting information, like what's the most popular car that people from Ohio drive on vacation...maybe version 2, but for now, it's simply counting how many times we see a county sticker, to see which county has the most visitors.

   For you Ohioan's, we know you love to vacation in the south (because we did too), and Myrtle Beach is a pretty popular spot, so the last one out, please, turn off the lights :-)

Note:  Myrtle Beach is the general descriptor of the area that will be included in this non-scientific study.  As we travel around the Grand Strand area which includes, and is not limited to Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Garden City, Surfside, Georgetown, Murrells Inlet and Little River to name a few.