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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 philwelch »

TheMissingData wrote: post #158
fhoffa wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, I see. Just for fun: - In Silicon Valley... Magic Johnson has more google searches than Larry Page. - In India... Larry Page has more google searches than Magic Johnson. - https://imgur.com/a/KwQ5wJt Just checking Google Trends, as you suggested...

Larry > Magic might be the HN bubble, but Magic > Larry definitely is the US bubble. Most of the world does not care about basketball at all.

In the US, the number one Larry that is a rival to Magic is not even Larry Page.

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

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Post by tompetry »

This is a super cool project. Spot checking WA state (where I was born and still live), the results are accurate and interesting! There are some comments about wanting to resolve duplicates (though duplicates are intentional), would be neat to include a "Born in this city" setting. I believe if the person was born in X city, they would show up in the "List of people from X" page - so not many changes needed.

Bravo!

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

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Post by maxerickson »

astura wrote: post #180
mehrdadn wrote: post #134

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> Even the US Postal Service doesn’t necessarily respect local political boundaries. I grew up in Phoenix, close to the Glendale border, and my address said “Glendale, AZ”. Oh what the heck! How does that even work? So the official city you live in is not the city that USPS considers you to live in? If a federal form asks you what city you live in, what do you put down (without committing perjury if there is such a r…

The "city" in your postal address is simply the city of your closest post office, the one that delivers your mail. Municipal boundaries don't matter at all to USPS because that's simply not how they deliver mail. I've lived in three different addresses in three different cities in New York whose mailing address city was a different city than where that place was located. There exists entire towns that don't have any…

Voter registration will also usually show which political divisions you occupy.

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

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Post by jen20 »

schoen wrote: post #144
danielsf wrote: post #119

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OP here. This idea was from looking at this map. https://www.wearedorothy.com/collections/music/products/u-s-...

Huh, it looks like the author of that older map might not have realized that "Pennsylvania 6-5000" is about the telephone number of a hotel in New York City (whose telephone exchange was named after Pennsylvania Station, which was named after the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was named after the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_6-5000_(song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEnnsy…

This is also the reason the well known 1940 swing song of the same name recorded by the Glen Miller band - after the phone number of the Pennsylvania hotel on 8th Ave whose ballroom they regularly played.

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

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Post by pembrook »

komali2 wrote: post #59

Ah fuck, what a good idea and fun project this must have been. How do people come up with awesome ideas like this? Whenever I have time for a personal project it'll be like... "guess I'll uh.... make this LED on a raspberry pi blink... wheee"

This isn't a personal project, it's a piece of content from an actual media company (the pudding is awesome). It's a lot easier to do things like this when you it's literally your job and you have things like a budget and a team to make it happen.

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Post by danans »

reallydude wrote: post #49
JCharante wrote: post #16

Interesting.. 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

Trolls! She's Poppy

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

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Post by JshWright »

Ok, that was way more interesting than I expected...

A few bits that are interesting to me (and probably no one else).

The two towns I've lived in are both renamed Grover Cleveland (he was born in one, and spent most of his childhood in the other).

Megyn Kelly attended elementary school in the next town over from where I live currently.

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

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Post by sonnyblarney »

philwelch wrote: post #181
TheMissingData wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Larry > Magic might be the HN bubble, but Magic > Larry definitely is the US bubble. Most of the world does not care about basketball at all.

In the US, the number one Larry that is a rival to Magic is not even Larry Page.

Hilarious: in the US, Larry Bird a guy who has not played ball in almost 30 years (!) is still way more popular than Larry Page. At least according to G trends.

The the OPs point however, Wikipedia is a special place.

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