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Re:The Long Tail of Dog Names by zem on Thursday August 08, 2019 @04:33PM (#20648394)
"brooklyn"?!!! i'm guessing that one was the result of a very sparse data set rather than there actually being more than one dog named "brooklyn".
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Re:The Long Tail of Dog Names by yurivish on Thursday August 08, 2019 @05:06PM (#20648765)
Looking at the 2016 data, there are 203 registered dogs named Brooklyn. Curiously, only 90 of them live in Brooklyn.

Brooklyns: https://gist.github.com/yurivish/326f64c439176f6d55f8d5528f1...

You can find the full dataset here: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/NYC-Dog-Licensing-Datas...

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Re:The Long Tail of Dog Names by zem on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:17PM (#20649431)
wow, okay, i'm surprised :) seems like a weird dog name, even for a new yorker.
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