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O.O'Brien

Personal blog · oobrien.comdatadesign

O.O'Brien's personal blog at oobrien.com covers data and design. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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3HN people?
2010–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

One commenter links a September 2014 post on the Scottish independence referendum as background reading for a referendum data map. The comment does not discuss the writing itself.

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  1. Background blog post: http://oobrien.com/2014/09/scottish-independence-referendum-...

    Comment linking /2014/09/scottish-independence-referendum-data-map/

    on “Scottish Independence Referendum Data Map”
  2. Submitted Railway station traffic statistics visualized as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Great example of dynamic choropeth map w/ OpenLayers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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