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Data Stuff
Personal blog · erdavis.comdatadesign
Data Stuff is a personal blog at erdavis.com about data and design. Since 2019, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters quote this Data Stuff post on the Disney and OpenAI Sora deal, discussing whether ad-funded or subscription content can make a profit. The posts cover data and media business economics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-09-27
What Hacker News says?
>The content is not freely available. You pay for it with ads or premium subscriptions. Okay, free with ads is "free" to consumers. That will get swamped by tiktok. Subscription is premium. People won't pay for slop. Those are both covered. >There is a massive amount of money being passed around behind the scenes. Yes. But who's making a profit? You can only shuffle money for so long, and we're hitting the breaking…
Comment linking /2021/06/14/do-women-who-pose-with-their-art-on-reddit-get-more-upvotes/
on “The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora”Submitted Where is there more livestock than people? as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Map of Emoji Similarity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the Oldest Name in the U.S.? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted International maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How common are roundabouts? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Average Colors of the World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I successfully pitched my first visual essay as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted International maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc. as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
