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floatingsheep
Personal blog · floatingsheep.orgdatascience
floatingsheep is a personal blog at floatingsheep.org about data and science. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link floatingsheep for its city data mapping, such as a crime map of San Francisco and an analysis of geocoded racist tweets around an election. Comments mostly link posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
http://www.floatingsheep.org/2010/06/mapping-crime-in-city-b... //related
Comment linking /2010/06/mapping-crime-in-city-by-bay.html
on “Crime Visualization of San Francisco”Submitted Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election as a story · 127 points
HN discussionThe part I'm most curious about is how Floating Sheep was looking for tweets "with racist terms that also reference the election". It just seems like 395 geocoded racist tweets is low. If they were just running tweets against a whitelist of things they thought a racist tweet might contain there could have been a lot of tweets falling through the cracks. Or, hey, maybe not. The comments on Mashable and the original F…
Comment linking /2012/11/faq-mapping-racist-tweets-in-response.html
on “Where America's Racist Tweets Come From”Submitted Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography of Gazetteers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Church or Beer? Americans on Twitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where bars trump grocery stores (US map) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Ganja or Mapping Marijuana as a story · 1 points
HN discussion