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“Every county on the map above gets a score for each place based on a combination of proximity, population, and Wikipedia article length, then normalized by sha
by dwighttk 4y ago
“Every county on the map above gets a score for each place based on a combination of proximity, population, and Wikipedia article length, then normalized by share.”
This score does not tell you “what place someone is most likely referring to, depending on where they are.”
- cjensen 4y agoYep. Love the idea, but the score is pretty wrong. E.g. Fremont. According to the map, there is a large area north of Sacramento for whom "Fremont" refers to an unpopulated place in Yolo County[1] rather than the city of a quarter million a in the Bay Area. That seems.... unlikely. [1] Railroad sidings have names and end up in geographic place lists. Looks to me like Wikipedia has filtered out many siding names but not all of them. I suspect this particular "Fremont" is a siding name.
- junar 4y agoAlso, in the Seattle area, "Fremont" likely refers to its Fremont neighborhood, and not, as the map claims, a place in California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont,_Seattle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont,_Seattle