Show HN: Language Map of the United States
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Show HN: Language Map of the United States
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Re: Show HN: Language Map of the United States
#2Where are you getting your database from, because "Dakota languages" probably isn't the correct label.
Re: Show HN: Language Map of the United States
#3Where are you getting your database from, because "Dakota languages" probably isn't the correct label.
The language options are based on responses from the ACS (American Community Survey), a yearly survey done by the Census Bureau. They go around to different households interviewing people about what languages they speak at home and respondents give a variety of answers, which I believe they try to categorize after the fact. Some answers are certainly families of languages. I believe in this case that option refers to this indigenous language of the Sioux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_language.
Here's more links to the dataset I used if you're interested: https://github.com/pcaisse/language-map-us#data
Re: Show HN: Language Map of the United States
#4Where are you getting your database from, because "Dakota languages" probably isn't the correct label.
The language options are based on responses from the ACS (American Community Survey), a yearly survey done by the Census Bureau. They go around to different households interviewing people about what languages they speak at home and respondents give a variety of answers, which I believe they try to categorize after the fact. Some answers are certainly families of languages. I believe in this case that option refers to…
Yeah, it’s one of three, but not the most popular of the bunch. Lakota is much better known. If you are grouping them then you probably want to change the label.
Nice site.
Re: Show HN: Language Map of the United States
#5Have you tried looking into data.gov. They have really good dataset you might find it useful.