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Diego Valle-Jones
Personal blog · blog.diegovalle.netdatascience
Diego Valle-Jones's personal blog at blog.diegovalle.net covers data and science. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Statistical Analysis of the Drug War in Mexico (with source)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on a statistical analysis of Mexico's drug war. It compares police records, death certificates and records of well-known massacres to find regional and temporal inconsistencies.
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.
This is the blog of Diego Valle-Jones. It’s about statistics, data analysis, visualization and programming.
Most-linked posts?
- Statistical Analysis of the Drug War in Mexico (with source)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-06-15
What Hacker News says?
Original post: http://blog.diegovalle.net/2010/06/statistical-analysis-and-... The author compares police records, death certificates, and the historical record of well-known massacres to identify inconsistencies regionally and over time. (Looks pretty rough in Juarez.)
Comment linking /2010/06/statistical-analysis-and-visualization.html
on “Statistical analysis of the drug war in Mexico and corresponding corruption”Submitted Statistical Analysis of the Drug War in Mexico (with source) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Homicides in Mexico 2010 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Statistical Analysis and Visualization of the Drug War in Mexico as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Real-time air pollution data for Mexico City as a story · 2 points
HN discussion