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by owenshen24 7y ago
Even as the person who wrote the scraping code for the original project, I'm a little suspect myself of the news data because of how similar the two distributions turn out to be. I think the strong similarity is an artifact of our data
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by owenshen24 7y ago
I would have loved a more comprehensive search of media. We opted for NYT/G because they had the friendliest APIs given our time constraints.
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by owenshen24 7y ago
I'm not exactly sure which analyses you'd like to see, but all the data is here in csv format if you want to run your own visualizations: https://github.com/owenshen24/charting-death-analysis/tree/m.
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by owenshen24 7y ago
One thing I wished we had done originally was stratify by age. Commenters on the original post mentioned that it wasn't entirely accurate to average over all deaths, esp. as different things are more likely to kill you at different tim
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by owenshen24 7y ago
Hey HN, I'm the lead person who did the original data collection. We were previously featured when I made the initial site here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16840237 Happy to answer more questions people might
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Recognizing vs. Generating Tasks(mlu.red)
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by owenshen24 9y ago
To start with, I didn't know much about charting on the web before this project. (It's much harder than in Python :P) I briefly looked at all the charting libraries on this list here: https://hackernoon.com/9-best-
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by owenshen24 9y ago
This is super great! Thanks for sharing!
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by owenshen24 9y ago
That's an easily remediable fix!
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by owenshen24 9y ago
Ah, I see. The charting library I used (charts.js) didn't come with an easy way to have a time axis, so I rigged up some stuff with JQuery and a slider. I guess something that could have helped with accessibility would have been a drop
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by owenshen24 9y ago
Oh, yeah, that seems like a good way to help with clarity. Thanks for sharing. I'll see if I can make some minor edits this week to help with that.
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by owenshen24 9y ago
Hm. The thing about costs is interesting. (That spending so much on terrorism is why we see so few deaths.) Evaluating counterfactuals is always hard. If I were to tackle it, I'd probably look at what we're spending the terrorism
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by owenshen24 9y ago
There are! The most famous one is this one https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794... and the results are largely in-line w/ what one might expect. > Two kinds of bias were identi
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by owenshen24 9y ago
Hey everyone, I'm super stoked to see this project getting some more traction! I was responsible for the visualizations / the scraping, so I'm happy to answer any questions people might have about the whole process. ^_^
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The Chromatic Number of the Plane Is at Least 5 – Aubrey de Grey(arxiv.org)
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Attractor Theory: A Model of Minds and Motivation(medium.com)
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The Recognizing vs. Generating Dichotomy(medium.com)
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Habits 101: Research on Creating and Breaking Habits(medium.com)
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Moloch: Prisoner's Dilemmas, Goodhart's Law, and Red Queen Races in High School(medium.com)
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Competition and Goodhart's Law in High Schools(medium.com)
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