The Quest to Quantify Portland's Pinball Prominence
Ryan Callihan
Analytics Lead, InterWorks
Some things I love:
Maps
Data
Portland
Regional History
Pinball
Some crazy pinball history.
Bagatelle
Ballyhoo, 1932
Marsh's Free Museum, Long Beach, Washington
Bally Sports
Bally Entertainment
(not just pinball)
Bally Total Fitness
Bally Pinball
VS
Stan Terry
James "Big Jim" Elkin
Portland and Pinball in the 1940's and 50's
Offbeat Oregon History
Roger Sharpe "The man who saved pinball", 1976
(spoiler: yes)
How to answer the question:
What are the best pinball cities in the USA?
Delineated on the basis of a central contiguous area of relatively high population density and > 50,000 people.
From this, I got:
1) Metro boundaries
2) Population
API includes:
Python - Get JSON from PinballMap API
So, I've got the data. Now what?
Back to the original question. What cities have the most pinball?
Data from 2018
# of Places to Play
# of Pinball Machines
# of Pinball Machines (per Capita)
# of Places to Play (per Capita)
#1!
#2!
#1!
#2!
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