Top all-time · #7190
Another Word For It
Personal blog · tm.durusau.netdataprogramming
Another Word For It is a personal blog at tm.durusau.net about data and programming. Since 2011, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Patrick Durusau's Another Word For It blog for topic maps and related resources on data sets, search and semantic tagging. One commenter calls it a good topic map blog.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-03
What Hacker News says?
here's some other data hubs/search engines, endless lists: http://datahub.io/ http://blog.bigml.com/2013/02/28/data-data-data-thousands-of... http://tm.durusau.net/?p=39312 http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/ _____________ this subreddit seems like a decent place to ask questions http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets
Comment linking /?p=39312
on “Data sets released by Google”Submitted Copy-on-write B-tree finally beaten. as a story · 188 points
HN discussionwiki's tend to grow into undifferentiated masses with lots of duplication everywhere. One approach is to simply give up on structuring your data, cut your data into small, cohesive docs as best you can (40-80 words), throw into database and index with sphinx, SOLR or elastic Search. Alternatively, searching for better tools/software: this guy's topic map blog is good (but prolific): http://tm.durusau.net/
Comment linking /
on “Notes on computer science, math, research, programming, and industry”Submitted Learn how to make Data Visualizations with D3.js as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot the author, I found it thru Patrick Durusau's blog: http://tm.durusau.net/
Comment linking /
on “Stellar Navigation Using Network Analysis”Submitted Monkeys, Copyright and Clojure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMaybe something on http://tm.durusau.net/?cat=151
Comment linking /?cat=151
on “Ask HN: How to implement a succesful semantic tagging strategy?”Submitted Overview of current NoSQL developments as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTopic maps are not about keywords, although you can search for keywords used by topics. Topics represent subjects (your concepts) and are a gathering point for information about that subject. For example, "record linkage," "list washing," and "database hardening" all refer to the matching of records of different origins that are about the same subject. As an aside, record linkage originated in epidemiology, which ne…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Why don't more developers use topic maps to organize their knowledge?”Submitted PLOP – Place Oriented Programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boosting MongoDB Performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lisp Curse as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
