If you think that's a lot of pink, click over to the full infographic for Miss Piggy territory.

Stamen, a design and technology studio in San Francisco has put together the best visualization we've seen to help you picture just how insanely Airbnb's popularity is spreading around New York.

On the studio's site, Stamen put together maps of both New York and San Francisco from 2008 to 2011. The brighter the block, the more Airbnb listings.

The eight-slide visualization on their site shows a few pink bars in 2008 morphing into a bright pink heat map that looks like its saturated almost all of Manhattan and hipster Brooklyn.

C'mon, Queens, get in the game.

As for what you're going to do about it? Well, Betabeat is here to help.*

Please meet The Groupon Investment Flow Chart:

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[*If we'd talked to a lawyer about this post, he'd probably tell us something like, "Should you be giving investment advice? Are you qualified to give investment advice? Are you actually giving investment advice? The answer to all of these questions and more is 'Fuck. No.' Now get out of my office before I sue you for being the dumbest goddamn client I've talked to all week." So we'll just go with that.]

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Based on their findings, the popular notion that the startup life is for the young may be a myth. "Our data shows that 65% of entrepreneurs are 30 and older – and only 2% are serial entrepreneurs," LinkedIn's Monica Rogati writes on the company blog. Of course, that's a self-selecting population of the type of people that use LinkedIn. And as we were reminded during Zerply's presentation at the 500 Startups demo last night, 120 million people is a small fraction compared to Facebook's whopping 750 million members.

Peter Thiel is not going to be happy about this, but Ms. Rogati points out that "the top over-represented business schools among entrepreneurs – with Stanford, Harvard and MIT Sloan taking the top spots." Which companies make fertile breeding grounds for wantrepreneurs? "Tech-heavy companies like Adobe  Systems, Apple Inc., eBay (including Paypal, of Paypal mafia fame), Electronic Arts, Google, Microsoft, SGI and Yahoo!."

LinkedIn's analysis should give tech bloggers a little ego boost. After VCs, founders are mostly likely to be connected with people from "online publishing."

Give me your tired, your (not) poor, your coding masses yearning to breathe free.

The folks at Focus have put together a handy infographic about earning potential in Silicon Valley where the number of jobs at internet companies (currently clocking in at 48,000) has surpassed the excesses of the dotcom boom. As Business Insider points out, the salaries listed (product and marketing managers make more than web developers and software engineers; Google engineers make more than those at Facebook and Twitter), don't account for stock-based compensation.

But the chart does delve into cost of living, typically an area where New York City loses out, although apparently not compared to the Valley.

The average tech salary in the Valley is around $92, 299 a year. Once you factor in the average price for a home in Silicon Valley (which is more than 191 percent above the national average) and the average apartment rent ($2,241/month or 76 percent higher than the national average) and California's 9.3 percent income tax on anyone making over $46,776 (New York state's rate is 6.85 percent on income between $20,001 and $200,000), Focus says become techies would have to earn just $74,808 for the same cost of living in New York City.

These numbers are all just for context because no one would ever leave New York City's burgeoning tech ecosystem for the Left Coast, right? Right?!

Update: Focus just reached out to Betabeat with another infographic comparing the Alley and the Valley. This one looks at the cost of operating a business in NYC vs. San Francisco. After examining everything from salaries to payroll tax to cost of utilities, Focus concludes, "San Francisco remains a more reasonable location to operate a business. Unless of course you plan to take your company public." That's because San Francisco's payroll tax counts employees cashing out stock options as gains. In Twitter's case, TechCrunch reported, if the company went public and raised $100 million, they would owe the city $75 million.

Like we said, keep on keepin' on. Nothing to see there, folks.