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

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

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Post by okmokmz » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:32 PM UTC

I'm a bit disappointing that Mr Hands, the guy that died from getting penetrated by a horse, isn't the most Wikipedia'ed resident of Enumclaw

Story for anyone interested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumclaw_horse_sex_case

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

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Post by jlarocco » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:32 PM UTC

howard941 wrote: post #78

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?

Yep, Debian. Other map sites work fine for me (caltopo.com, ridewithgps.com).

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

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Post by the_watcher » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:33 PM UTC

This is really cool! Something that would be nice would be an option to toggle "born in/native" vs. "any association." My hometown, La Quinta, California, has Phil Knight simply because he has a home there. No one I know associates him with La Quinta.

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

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Post by pgt » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:33 PM UTC

It would be cool to see the same map for people worldwide, not just in the US.

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

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Post by the_watcher » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:36 PM UTC

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.

Except that it's really "person whose Wikipedia page references Lansing searched the most," which is how you end up with Phil Knight (an Oregon native who started a company famously headquartered in Oregon, and continues to donate huge amounts of money to an Oregon university) for La Quinta, CA, a suburb of Palm Springs in which he happens to have a house.

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

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Post by danmg » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:37 PM UTC

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.

worked for me on palemoon

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

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Post by e40 » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:37 PM UTC

Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville, KY and not Paradise Valley (CA?). Wikipedia says this. Noticed this right off the bat.

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

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Post by danmg » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:38 PM UTC

gwbas1c wrote: post #71

How do I zoom?

mouse wheel.

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

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Post by drivers99 » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:39 PM UTC

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

Scott Pilgrim vs The World

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

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Post by fhoffa » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:39 PM UTC

sonnyblarney wrote: post #80

fhoffa wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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...