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I’m playing with Microsoft MapPoint. It is pretty awesome, except for the fact that some smaller cities don’t register. Anyway, I finished compiling the location of all fans of ANZ Champship teams on bebo, blogger, LiveJournal and LiveJournal clones. Interest in this particular competition is small compared to the NRL, AFL and A-League. For a few people, fans didn’t list a city which makes getting an accurate idea of where fans are difficult. Two cities didn’t appear as they were really, really rural so they were excluded. I took this data and the output was the following map.
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Australia Test by City
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Melbourne Vixens |
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New South Wales Swifts (Sydney Swifts) |
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Northern Mystics |
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Southern Steel |
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Sydney Swifts |
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The map has that limited perspective because there were no Queensland based fans. That includes people who just listed state, not city. The same situation existed for Western Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and Northern Territory.
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New Zealand has several professional sports teams that compete in Australian and New Zealand based leagues. The leagues that are involved with include the the A-League, ANZ Championship, National Rugby League, and Super 14. The teams include Wellington Phoenix, Northern Mystics, Southern Steel, Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, Canterbury Crusaders, and New Zealand Warriors. The map below only includes bebo and blogger users who list the team as an interest and list a city in New Zealand as their place of residence. (I haven’t done LiveJournal and there were no fans on LiveJournal’s clones.) The city communities involved are really small compared to some of their Australian peers. Brisbane has 121 compared to Auckland’s 11. To be fair though, Auckland had fans of Australian based teams and if those were included, they’d be at 22 instead of 11. (Those 11 fans are all NRL fans of the following teams: Brisbane Broncos, Canberra Raiders, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Gold Coast Titans.
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New Zealand
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18 |
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4 |
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1 |
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Wellington Phoenix |
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Northern Mystics |
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Southern Steel |
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Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic |
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Canterbury Crusaders |
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New Zealand Warriors |
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When I add up the bebo, blogger, LiveJournal and LiveJournal clone data for teams where I have all that data, the Brisbane Broncos are one of the most popular teams. There are 333 fans who list the team as an interest across those sites. Of those, 158 list their city of residence. When added together, you get the following distribution of Broncos fans:
Outside of Brisbane, the second big of fans is Townsville with eight. Sydney in New South Wales has five. New Zealand has one city with three fans and two cities with two fans. This accounts for 1/5 of cities with two or three fans. There are very few fans in Victoria, which makes sense as that is AFL territory. The distribution of the population inside the country for this team looks pretty logical.
This little experiment with Google Fusion Tables is pretty much done as fans are distributed across 86 cities and Google Fusion Tables is just not displaying that data.
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This post looks at the geographic distribution of various fans by location inside Australia. The maps were created using Google’s Fusion Tables. The data is based on this table, which includes bebo, blogger, LiveJournal and LiveJournal clones. The totals by city were added together. (So if there were 2 bebo fans and 1 blogger fan from a city, the total will be 3.) (United Kingdom and United States data has been filtered out.) These tables will not likely be updated. Rather, this data will probably appear in a new table and graphs when more data is added. Please read the Google created legend carefully.
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While I try to be accurate with this data, there are times when trying to guess a person’s location based on only the city they list that I may guess wrong or wrongly identify the state a city is in. I’ve found this happened with the Brisbane Broncos, where I wrongly labeled two people from Sydney as being in Victoria. In another case for the Canberra Raiders, a township inside the ACT and one of the bigger cities share the same name. I originally had it labeled as the city in New Zealand. I went back, re-evaluated it and determined that this person was likely from the ACT Township. When these issues are discovered, I update the data set but not necessarily the post.
I’d advise you check the original source if this data is crucial to anything you’re doing. For me, this data set is pretty much just being built and I’m trying to gather it all, doing some preliminary totals and check it for errors as I work on compiling it. I’m also using it to learn more about Australian sport. It isn’t near being finished… Take some of this with a grain of salt.
If you want the raw data as I have it, please contact me.
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The Gold Coast Titans are a member of the National Rugby League. According to Roy Morgan Research, they are the 11th most popular NRL team in Australia. Prior to this post, I’ve looked at two current (Brisbane Broncos, Canberra Raiders) and nine defunct (Balmain Tigers, Northern Eagles, Western Suburbs Magpies, Adelaide Rams, Annandale Dales, Cumberland, Glebe Dirty Reds, Hunter Mariners, South Queensland Crushers) NRL teams on bebo. The Gold Coast Titans hold a very secure second with 138 people interested in them on bebo. The Raiders are third with 83 and the Broncos are first at 278. The Gold Coast Titans number fits with the pattern if we correlate the teams where I have bebo data and the Roy Morgan Research data:
Correlation NRL to Roy Morgan
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bebo |
blogger |
Facebook |
Roy Morgan |
| Brisbane Broncos |
278 |
12 |
27520 |
1259000 |
| Gold Coast Titans |
138 |
2 |
9680 |
274000 |
| Canberra Raiders |
83 |
4 |
4160 |
164000 |
| Correlation |
0.982805538 |
0.960648284 |
0.99067366 |
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The correlation for bebo is strong that that of the pattern for blogger, though it isn’t as strong as the one for Facebook. The correlations are so strong though that it is hardly worth mentioning.
The Gold Coast Titans community is 50% male, 38% gender unknown and 12% female. The percent unknown makes it really hard to discuss the male versus female community size. And the community for the team on blogger is so small (2) that its all maleness probably doesn’t speak to the bebo community in answering the percentage question. 51 or 82.3% of the fans on bebo, where they list information so their country can be identified, are from Australia. The others are from New Zealand (10 or 16.1%) and Yemen (1 or 1.6%). There are a number of Kiwis playing on the squad which can help explain the fanbase. The person from Yemen may be an error. They list their city of residence as Tawahi, which is a city in Yemen. There are no Yemeni players on the team, but it could be an Australian who moved to Yemen, or a Yemeni who visited Australia and fell in love with the team.
Of the Australians, most (27) hail from Queensland. The remainder hail from New South Wales (20), the ACT (2), Northern Territory (1) and Western Australia (1).
44 people list their age. The mean age is 24.09, median age is 21 and mode age is 19. This is very close to the bebo Raiders with a mean age of 23.3 and the bebo Broncos mean age of 23.29.
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The Canterbury Crusaders are a Christchurch, New Zealand rugby team that play in the Super 14 competition. They are discussed here because the competition includes teams from Australia. For more information on the Super 14, please read Wikipedia’s article.
On bebo, there are 51 fans of the team. Because most people barracking for the team are Kiwis (77.8% or 28 of the 36 people listing a country of residence), this post will be rather brief without much analysis. In addition to the Kiwis, the team on bebo has 1 fan from Fiji, 1 from the United Kingdom and 6 from Australia. The six Australians are distributed somewhat equally in the country: 2 from New South Wales, 2 from Queensland, 1 from South Australia and 1 from Western Australia.
25 of the 51 list their age. Of these, the mean age is 28, median is 26 and mode is 18. The Queensland Reds community on bebo and LiveJournal and the Canterbury Crusaders on blurty, DeadJournal and Dreamwidth are not really big enough to compare age wise as the biggest has three people listing age. 49% or 25 identify as male, 29% or 15 people identify as female and 22% or 11 do not identify as a gender. Compared to the Queensland Reds bebo community where all 6 identify as male, this community has a huge female population.
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I’m going through my data to make sure I can easily find everything by league and city. Back on January 3, I collected data for the Perth Heat community on bebo and found 27 people who were interested in the team. If you are an Australian and don’t know who the Perth Heat are, that is understandable. The Perth based team competes in the Claxton Shield, Australia’s premiere baseball competition. The competition is a successor to the defunct Australian Baseball League.
Of the 27 people, 15 are female (56%), 11 are male (41%) and 1 does not list a gender (3%). This 50% female is unique on bebo, with the only other teams looked at so far having that percentage are the female New South Wales Swifts and Central Pulse. I don’t know enough about baseball in Australia to know why this is so. I might speculate that the bebo fans may be women related to or involved with men playing on the team. For Australian rules football in the United States, where the game is not a major one, a lot of the attendees and people interested in teams like the Chicago United, many of the fans are female and connected to the team in some way. That could account for it. It may also be something like American expats could be more female and looking for a local team to cheer for that reminds them of home.
The average age of the 19 fans who list their age is 26.5, median age is 27 and mode age is 29. Fans of the team aren’t that old and look a bit older than some other communities on bebo.
The Perth Heat have an international fanbase on bebo and Twitter:
Perth Heat on Bebo and Twitter
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Barbagallo Perth Heat |
Barbagallo Perth Heat |
| Country |
bebo |
Twitter |
| Australia |
7 |
32 |
| Ecuador |
0 |
12 |
| Ireland |
4 |
4 |
| Netherlands |
0 |
4 |
| New Zealand |
8 |
0 |
| United Kingdom |
2 |
0 |
| United States |
0 |
36 |
| Total |
21 |
88 |
| % Australia |
33% |
36% |
| % Ecuador |
0% |
14% |
| % Ireland |
19% |
5% |
| % Netherlands |
0% |
5% |
| % New Zealand |
38% |
0% |
| % United Kingdom |
10% |
0% |
| % United States |
0% |
41% |
When I originally did the Twitter table, I thought shenanigans were at play because of the large number of international fans. Given the bebo data, that Twitter data does not look as questionable.
On bebo,7 Australians identify their state of residence. (Or it can be easily figured out based on the city they live in.) Six are in Western Australia and one is in Tasmania. The Tasmanian is a bit surprising but otherwise, a regional team has a regional audience. Seems pretty logical.
Of all the networks looked at so far, the largest fanbase for this team is on Facebook with 800, then Twitter with 35 and bebo with 27. The other services like blogger, LiveJournal and its clones have no other fans. Bebo’s community is thus the smallest of the existing communities, but also the one with the most easily accessible demographic data.
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The Central Pulse are a New Zealand based team in the Australian/New Zealand based ANZ Championship, the premiere netball competition in both countries. Because the presence of Australian teams, it is being covered by this blog.
There is a small community of people listing the team as an interest on bebo. It consists of four people. Of these four, all are from New Zealand and all are female. These two are not surprising given that this a female athletic team and the team is based in New Zealand.
The average and mean age of the three fans listing their age is 21.6 and 21 respectively. This sample of three is the largest of all the other teams looked at on social networks so far. With samples of one, the New South Wales Swifts community on LiveJournal, and the Melbourne Phoenix on blogger are both older at 22 and 32. With samples of one, Adelaide Thunderbirds on bebo, and New South Wales Swifts on bebo are younger at 18 and 20.
Considering the population size of Australia compared to New Zealand, the most surprising thing about this bebo data is that the community is so big at 4 compared to Australian teams with 1.
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