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Show HN: Data Is Plural – A weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets

89 points by jsvine 11y ago

jsvine 11y ago
TinyLetter archive: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/archive https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/archive Structured archive: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8fQFMemwKL2c64vk https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4jucl... Most recent edition, sent yesterday: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-04-edition https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural...
- adjwilli 11y ago
  Thanks for posting those links. The original link isn't to explanatory about what types of content the mailing list will have.
  - jsvine 11y ago
    Good point. I've now updated the text on the landing page, to the extent that's possible with TinyLetter.
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- bambax 11y ago
  This is great!! I just subscribed. It would be helpful if each past issue in the archive list would tell what sets it presents, instead of all having the same subtitle...?
  - jsvine 11y ago
    Agreed. The archive uses the first line of the newsletter as the summary. I've been using the same tagline as the first line. But, for future newsletters, I think I'll make the first line more descriptive. E.g., for the most recent: "Maternity leave, art collections, firearm dealers, New Guinea languages, and aircraft-wildlife strikes." Would that be an improvement?
    - bambax 11y ago
      Yes, it would! ;-)
cstuder 11y ago
Very cool idea, I've just subscribed as well. And I am thinking about starting the same thing, but for my own country. The current links are almost exclusively from the US.
thehoff 11y ago
Great idea! Subscribed. Have you posted to Datatau? I'll bet there's some folks over there that would be interested as well.
- jsvine 11y ago
  Thanks! I haven't yet, but that's a great idea. Will do so shortly.
rawdisk 11y ago
One of the very, very few "Show HN's" I would give an A+ for the idea. Even better would be a focus on FTP, e.g., datasets available as bulk data without silly "API's". In the early days of the internet posting about such datasets was quite common. Meanwhile I have to continually write flex scanners to transform MySQL and JSON into something useable with kdb (someday maybe I can do all the munging in q). Not to mention all the "scraping". But I am so used to cutting through Javscript and other cruft it does not bother me anymore. Dataset discovery. A+ for idea.
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daviross 11y ago
This looks excellent. Are you wedded to the email newsletter distribution format, or would RSS be reasonable as well?
fiatjaf 11y ago
So no one is using dat, despite all the hype? http://dat-data.com/ http://dat-data.com/
edaniels 11y ago
Love the idea. Is this the first of its kind?

89 points by jsvine 11y ago

TinyLetter archive: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/archive https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/archive Structured archive: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8fQFMemwKL2c64vk https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4jucl... Most recent edition, sent yesterday: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-04-edition https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural...

adjwilli 11y ago
Thanks for posting those links. The original link isn't to explanatory about what types of content the mailing list will have.
- jsvine 11y ago
  Good point. I've now updated the text on the landing page, to the extent that's possible with TinyLetter.
- deleted 11y ago
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bambax 11y ago
This is great!! I just subscribed. It would be helpful if each past issue in the archive list would tell what sets it presents, instead of all having the same subtitle...?
- jsvine 11y ago
  Agreed. The archive uses the first line of the newsletter as the summary. I've been using the same tagline as the first line. But, for future newsletters, I think I'll make the first line more descriptive. E.g., for the most recent: "Maternity leave, art collections, firearm dealers, New Guinea languages, and aircraft-wildlife strikes." Would that be an improvement?
  - bambax 11y ago
    Yes, it would! ;-)

cstuder 11y ago

Very cool idea, I've just subscribed as well. And I am thinking about starting the same thing, but for my own country. The current links are almost exclusively from the US.

thehoff 11y ago

Great idea! Subscribed. Have you posted to Datatau? I'll bet there's some folks over there that would be interested as well.

jsvine 11y ago
Thanks! I haven't yet, but that's a great idea. Will do so shortly.

rawdisk 11y ago

One of the very, very few "Show HN's" I would give an A+ for the idea. Even better would be a focus on FTP, e.g., datasets available as bulk data without silly "API's". In the early days of the internet posting about such datasets was quite common. Meanwhile I have to continually write flex scanners to transform MySQL and JSON into something useable with kdb (someday maybe I can do all the munging in q). Not to mention all the "scraping". But I am so used to cutting through Javscript and other cruft it does not bother me anymore. Dataset discovery. A+ for idea.

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daviross 11y ago

This looks excellent. Are you wedded to the email newsletter distribution format, or would RSS be reasonable as well?

fiatjaf 11y ago

So no one is using dat, despite all the hype? http://dat-data.com/ http://dat-data.com/

edaniels 11y ago

Love the idea. Is this the first of its kind?