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Re:Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world by ehnto on Friday July 29, 2022 @02:12PM (#32280112)
It wasn't a criticism, of course something like this is limited by the data available and that's no the fault of the author. I was just musing on what might be a side effect of using what's available.

There wouldn't be a 'total complete and true set' of data for this task, since not all countries use wiki's to the same extent, and languages don't actually delineate between country (eg: Spanish wikipedia is not exclusively the view of people from Spain, nor is English wikipedia exclusively the views of people from England).

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Re:Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world by Cd00d on Friday July 29, 2022 @02:26PM (#32280248)
Sorry, I wasn't complaining about your post specifically, just a general tenor that kind of shits on this work because of an unsolvable problem: as you say there's actually no comprehensive dataset that would make it possible.

Your original comment was valid and insightful. I replied to it because it triggered a lot of secondary criticism about sample bias, and those are the comments I was most trying to respond to.

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Re:Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world by ehnto on Friday July 29, 2022 @02:31PM (#32280300)
Ah I see, thanks for the clarification. It's a fair defense, this is still definitely an awesome project!
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