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I didn't understand the methodology. Turns out it's because my first data point was the result of an error in the source data. I looked at Santa Fe, since I th
by eesmith 4y ago
I didn't understand the methodology. Turns out it's because my first data point was the result of an error in the source data.
I looked at Santa Fe, since I thought George R. R. Martin would be the most famous person there.
This says Anna Gunn is the most famous person from Santa Fe.
Okay, so perhaps Martin's a transplant, while Gunn was born there? The map legend says "birthplaces", after all.
Nope. At least, Wikipedia and IMDB says she was born in Cleveland, and her family moved to Santa Fe when she was young.
Though ... other sources say she was born in Santa Fe, like https://patch.com/new-mexico/albuquerque/3-celebrities-who-live-our-backyard https://patch.com/new-mexico/albuquerque/3-celebrities-who-l... ?
But the source paper at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4 uses Wikipedia and Wikidata - both of which list Cleveland.
... Ah-ah! The place of birth entry for Wikidata changed on 3 August 2020 from Cleveland to Santa Fe. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q271050&oldid=1245879940 https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q271050&oldid=124...
And the Wikipedia entry changed on 31 August 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anna_Gunn&diff=861772527&oldid=857406895 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anna_Gunn&diff=86...
And the data from the paper was from 2018.
I wonder how bad the data is in the rest of the data set.