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Re:Five cities account for vast majority of growth in U.S. t... by dsunshine on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:27PM (#21746146)
The NYTimes article on the study has more numbers. What's odd about DC is the number of losses seems high but it's hard to tell how big that is in proportion.

For example, Silicon Valley and San Francisco gained a huge number. However, Madison Wisconsin was in the top ten and is a much smaller metro area. Washington lost 7k but it's a big metro - especially compared to Wichita.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/business/economy/innovati...

And North Carolina is just weird - Durham lost 6k but Raleigh gained 12k? Are people just moving from Durham County to Wake County?

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Re:Five cities account for vast majority of growth in U.S. t... by omarhaneef on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:29PM (#21746807)
yeah, I had similar thoughts. Using absolute numbers makes sense of some cities, using the expansion over a tech base for others, and expansion over total base for yet others.

From the NYtimes piece it looks like they use absolute numbers but the study itself seems to run a mix of analyses including absolute, % change etc.

Their definition of an innovation job might have something to do with it, too.

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