TIL Samuel L. Jackson is the most wikipedia'd person who's ever lived in Washington DC. That's kind of wild considering the competition includes every US president ever, among many others.
A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
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OP here. This idea was from looking at this map. https://www.wearedorothy.com/collections/music/products/u-s-...
It’s beautiful, and reminds me of an idea that I had ... hint ... hint. I live in Melbourne, Australia. Idle Googling led me to the discovery that someone had rated – as in on Maps, with stars – a tram stop. A municipal function, a concrete slab, a place you must necessarily and unavoidably go if you want a tram. Rated. People! Crazy. So I want a map that, at the level of ‘Melbourne’, aggregates the Google review for…
> Ultimately I suppose you’d be able to zoom out to the world and see its Google review score.
Mostly harmless?
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#213It'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.
Hulk Hogan is credited as being born in Augusta, GA; but his family moved to Florida when he was one and a half. Also, I'm not sure why Viggo Mortensen is listed way up in north Idaho, he only lived there three years?
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#215I wonder why James Earl Jones isn't listed for Jackson, MI. His page contains a link to Jackson, and Jackson's page contains a link to him. His page has more views than than Paula Faris'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_Michigan https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.or...
Because the creators of the map got their list of names from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Jackson,_... .
Paula Faris is in that list. James Earl Jones is not.
Yes, there is overlap between that category page and the "Notable people" under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_Michigan .
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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…
"Washington Bullets" isn't about Washington state either, which seems like a thing he'd be likely to know, so maybe he wasn't trying to be that strict.
The map was designed to make money, not to be a historical record.
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Well, Gell-Mann just died, so it could be one of those "whoever is in the news more recently gets the most pageviews" effects. Sort of like how any mildly funny post on a growing subreddit will become top/all time simply because a lot of people looked at it that day. The next day, there will be even more people to look at it, etc.
"The period of collection was from July, 2015–May, 2019" and it seems unlikely that a one week bump due to Gell-Mann's recent death would be enough to change the balance. I don't know how to get page view statistics from the Wikipedia API to double-check this.
GRRM's page views far exceed that of Gell-Mann over the years. https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.or... .
There is no way the news of Gell-Mann's recent death could cause the balance to change that significantly. Over 8 million people would have needed to visit his page in a week, for a page which normally gets 9,000 views each month.
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It’s beautiful, and reminds me of an idea that I had ... hint ... hint. I live in Melbourne, Australia. Idle Googling led me to the discovery that someone had rated – as in on Maps, with stars – a tram stop. A municipal function, a concrete slab, a place you must necessarily and unavoidably go if you want a tram. Rated. People! Crazy. So I want a map that, at the level of ‘Melbourne’, aggregates the Google review for…
That would probably just end up being a map of economic conditions in any given section of town. The seedy parts will be lower rated overall (even if there's a highly rated ethnic food joint or whatever), while the swanky parts will have nicer things. That's my guess, although I think you should still do it, because I might be totally wrong. And interesting patterns might still appear even if I'm right.
If it's based only on Google reviews I think it'll be static. For example, the taco Bell in my hometown has 4.5 stars on Google because it's one of the only restaurants in the area.
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I would bet you probably come up with a really good idea about once a week, and that's being conservative. The trick is just to store them in some always-accessible note taking app (e.g. Evernote, OneNote, Apple's Notes app) as soon as they come to you (i.e. in the middle of a totally unrelated lecture), and accumulate them over a long period of time (talking years here).
Also, you need practice, write 5 ideas a day. Doesn't matter what ideas, things might exist or not exist. After a while, you will have a pile of garbage with some really good jewels between them. PS. It was mentioned in the book, I don't recall which one.
James Altucher's "Choose Yourself" mentions 10 a day, but I don't think it was original.
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#220This is interesting in large part as a demonstration of how bizarre/indefinite the idea of being "from" a place is. For instance, Cambridge, MA isn't headlined by a famous MIT/Harvard academic, or local political figure, or even Neil Gaiman- but instead by Bhumibol Adulyadej, the previous king of Thailand, who was born there while his father was studying at Harvard, and left at the age of 2. Meanwhile, Boston gets Jo…
John Cena was apparently born in many places, just like Dwayne Johnson.