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A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
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#42Expected Lansing would be Magic Johnson but instead its Larry Page. Magic comes back often and is active in local charities, even leading efforts to raise money for college scholarships. On the other hand Larry Page has to my knowledge never returned or given a dime to local charities. So perhaps that makes people ever more curious about him.
It's not "The person people from Lansing searched the most." It's "the person from Lansing that people search the most". Worldwide, Larry Page is certainly more of a public figure than Magic Johnson.
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#43I'm not opposed to renaming Minneapolis, "Prince Town"...
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#44It seems to be the person has lived there at any point in their life?
Southwest Florida is an interesting one...
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#45Funny how a porn star is the #1 for Miami Beach. I would have expected some other kind of celebrity.
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#46It's too bad there are so many duplicates. I think it would be more interesting if it was based on birthplace, since big cities that attract lots of businesspeople/celebrities just get tagged with someone really famous who doesn't have any particular connection with the city (e.g. Elon Musk on Los Angeles, Steve Jobs on basically everywhere in the Bay Area).
The Wikidata "place of birth" field would probably be a reasonably reliable source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P19
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#47Interesting to see Elon Musk as LA.
Probably because his residence is listed as "Bel Air, Los Angeles, California" on his Wikipedia page.
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#48This is awesome. Fun to zoom in/out and see the names fade in and out.
I'm impressed by how responsive the zooming is.
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#49Interesting.. I've literally never heard of Anna Kendrick before.
She's a B-list movie star who does some indie stuff.
* She was in two of the Twilight films.
* Pitch Perfect (trilogy).
* Mr. Right. The Accountant. (hitmen with a heart of gold movies).
* A Simple Favor. (stepford wife mystery).
* Drinking Buddies (a brewery drama, it's great)
* Scott Pilgrim vs The World
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#50I was kinda surprised by the Los Alamos result. I was expecting Oppenheimer, instead it was some guy named Drew Goddard.