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Matt Stiles
Personal blog · thedailyviz.comdatadesign
Matt Stiles writes The Daily Viz, a personal blog at thedailyviz.com about data and design. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “How Common Is Your Birthday?”. The last post was in 2019, 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 this blog for its data visualisation of birth dates, such as which birth dates are most common. One commenter pointed to the full article and its sources.
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.
A (retired) digital sketchpad for data stories, by Matt Stiles.
Most-linked posts?
- How Common Is Your Birthday?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-13
- How Common Is Your Birthday? (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-01
What Hacker News says?
I think the surprising truth is that women may, inconsciously or to some extent, influence the time of birth. If you look at the distribution of birth per calendar days there are unusual spikes and distributions on special days such as valentines day and i'm not sure this could explain by people deciding to have specifically more sex 9 month before considering the "supposed" randomness of the day of birth aound the…
Comment linking /2016/09/17/how-common-is-your-birthday-dailyviz/
on “Fewer premature babies born since Covid-19 lockdown”Submitted How Common Is Your Birthday? (2012) as a story · 71 points
HN discussionFull article and details about the sources: http://thedailyviz.com/2012/05/12/how-common-is-your-birthda...
Comment linking /2012/05/12/how-common-is-your-birthday/
on “Which birth dates are most common?”Submitted Which birth dates are most common? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Common Is Your Birthday? as a story · 5 points
HN discussion
