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Stats, Maps n Pix
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Stats, Maps n Pix is a personal blog at statsmapsnpix.com about data and science. Since 2016, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Where is the most densely populated square kilometre in the UK? (2023)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link it as a source for population-by-latitude data, used in energy and climate discussions. It is also cited for map analysis such as the longest straight line in Great Britain.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Where is the most densely populated square kilometre in the UK? (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-09
- The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-07
What Hacker News says?
Amusing southern California is getting more watts per m2 then A lot of North Africa. This is a good source, population by latitude. http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2021/11/world-population-by-lat...
Comment linking /2021/11/world-population-by-latitude.html
on “Batteries: How cheap can they get?”Submitted Where is the most densely populated square kilometre in the UK? (2023) as a story · 68 points
HN discussionThe bulk of humanity lives between 45 north latitude and 15 south latitude. http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2021/11/world-population-by-lat...
Comment linking /2021/11/world-population-by-latitude.html
on “U.S. Senate passes bill to support advanced nuclear energy deployment”Submitted The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road) as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI look at California ISO's site https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply The difference between summer and winter for renewables is 20%. In California the difference is driven mostly by solar. This is an interesting page. http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2021/11/world-population-by-lat... Majority of the worlds population lives between 40 north and 10 degrees south. And also some places like Scotland had lots of wind…
Comment linking /2021/11/world-population-by-latitude.html
on “Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral”Submitted The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionVery nice result. You can also do the same in QGIS, this blog post shows off using orthographic projection for other goals: https://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2019/09/globe-projections-and-...
Comment linking /2019/09/globe-projections-and-insets-in-qgis.html
on “Make Map Icons with Orthographic Projections”Submitted Map Animations with Ffmpeg as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTrue, but the world population isn't distributed symmetrically: there aren't many living at high latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere. See graph "population by latitude" here: https://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2021/11/world-population-by-la... There are quite a few people living North of 45°N, but hardly any South of 45°S.
Comment linking /2021/11/world-population-by-latitude.html
on “Can the moon influence human health? New research”Submitted GB railway stations and nearest station as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPart 2 goes into the methodology - it's some neat analysis! http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2023/04/the-longest-line-part-2...
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on “The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road)”Submitted How Big Is Tokyo? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis seems to be a take on the original article about finding the densest square although not actually what is like in that square kilometre. http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2023/02/where-is-most-densely-p...
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on “The UK's most densely populated gridsquare”Submitted How to make a 3D population density render for any country in the world as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Population Density in Europe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted WALRUS: The Wirral and Liverpool Regional Urban System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Polish Map of Scotland as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Global Human Settlement Layer: an amazing new global population dataset as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intra-Interstate Populations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stats, Maps n Pix: From Anscombe's quartet to choropleth classification as a story · 1 points
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