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A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

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Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

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Post by clairity »

we sure do love our entertainers!

a little interest makes sense but i've never understood the intense interest that most people have with entertainers and celebrities in general. i'm more interested in people who have, and can, impact my life, like historical figures, friends, family, scientists, and local/regional leaders (political or otherwise).

Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

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Post by sonnyblarney »

sparky_z wrote: post #42
rmason wrote: post #39

Expected 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.

"Worldwide, Larry Page is certainly more of a public figure than Magic Johnson."

This is HN bubble thinking.

Very few regular people know who 'Larry Page' is.

Almost everyone knows who 'Magic Johnson' is.

Have a look at Google search trends.

Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

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Post by Estyn »

jlarocco wrote: post #66

Doesn't work for me in Firefox. If web developers aren't going to bother with cross-browser compatibility it'd be nice if they at least went back to telling visitors which browsers they do support.

Works for me in Firefox 67

Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

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Post by melling »

cgy1 wrote: post #56
baddox wrote: post #46

It'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 rea…

The person for my hometown on that website seems to only have been born there but moved away before elementary school, so I'm not sure how that's really all that interesting.

Well, it’s interesting to some people because they keep searching for that person.

It’s probably because they were trying to find out when that person lived there.

Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

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Post by howard941 »

jlarocco wrote: post #66

Doesn't work for me in Firefox. If web developers aren't going to bother with cross-browser compatibility it'd be nice if they at least went back to telling visitors which browsers they do support.

Me too. It likes FF 67.0 64 bit on win but dislikes FF 67.0 on 64 bit FreeBSD. The mapbox URLs aren't called on the latter. Are you also on a unix-like system?

Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

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Post by fhoffa »

sonnyblarney wrote: post #73
sparky_z wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"Worldwide, Larry Page is certainly more of a public figure than Magic Johnson." This is HN bubble thinking. Very few regular people know who 'Larry Page' is. Almost everyone knows who 'Magic Johnson' is. Have a look at Google search trends.

Not really. This is people looking at Wikipedia.

Guess: Who's the Alan with the most pageviews in Wikipedia? Who's the Steve?

I left the answers here:

- https://medium.com/towards-data-science/bigquery-without-a-c...

Basically a show-off for BigQuery, but to answer this specific question: The most viewed Alan and Steve in Wikipedia are the ones closer to HN.

    SELECT title, SUM(views) views
    FROM `fh-bigquery.wikipedia_v3.pageviews_2019`
    WHERE DATE(datehour) BETWEEN '2019-01-01' AND '2019-01-10'
    AND wiki='en'
    AND title LIKE r'Alan\_%'
    GROUP BY title
    ORDER BY views DESC
    LIMIT 10

Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

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Post by sonnyblarney »

fhoffa wrote: post #79
sonnyblarney wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Worldwide, Larry Page is certainly more of a public figure than Magic Johnson." This is HN bubble thinking. Very few regular people know who 'Larry Page' is. Almost everyone knows who 'Magic Johnson' is. Have a look at Google search trends.

Not really. This is people looking at Wikipedia. Guess: Who's the Alan with the most pageviews in Wikipedia? Who's the Steve? I left the answers here: - https://medium.com/towards-data-science/bigquery-without-a-c... Basically a show-off for BigQuery, but to answer this specific question: The most viewed Alan and Steve in Wikipedia are the ones closer to HN. SELECT title, SUM(views) views FROM `fh-bigquery.wikipedia_…

"Worldwide, Larry Page is certainly more of a public figure than Magic Johnson."

Is what I responded to.

Don't misconstrue how much people do not care about business people, and how much they do care about sports figures.

Nobody in my family knows who Larry Page is.

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