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Venkatesh Elango

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Venkatesh Elango's personal blog at wellango.github.io covers data and economics. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “An analysis of car ownership in NYC by neighborhood and income”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-15, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2023–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

The linked post is cited in a thread on NYC congestion pricing as a source showing a negative correlation between car ownership and poverty. The comment does not judge the writing itself.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. An analysis of car ownership in NYC by neighborhood and income
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-06-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. Really what's the point of asking this question? Did you do a search and not find anything and you're convinced this is false? Or are you just here to fight? [1] shows a pretty clear negative correlation between car ownership and poverty. Do you have a source that shows contradictory information? (I love social medi... sorry HN oops how can I get this wrong, the quality of discussion is so high! :) [1]: https://well…

    Comment linking /posts/2021/06/who-owns-cars-in-nyc/

    on “The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing”
  2. Submitted Who owns a car in New York City as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Who owns a car in New York City? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted An analysis of car ownership in NYC by neighborhood and income as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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