Tag: Public attention

• Born here: the most famous person from every UK town

  

  I matched 166,586 notable people in Wikidata to the UK towns and cities they were born in: the most famous person from each, the towns that punch above their weight, and why so many of them are hospital towns.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Birthplaces, Britain, cities, Famous people, population, Present day, Public attention, UK, Wikidata

• Mentioned in the House: which places does Parliament talk about?

  

  A century of Hansard, counted place by place: 297,134 Commons mentions of UK towns and cities since 1909, which places punch above their weight, and who names your constituency.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Hansard, Parliament, Present day, Public attention, Text mining, Twentieth century, UK

• Born here, loved there: where dog breeds come from, and where they are loved

  

  I mapped 573 dog breeds to their countries of origin and set them against kennel club registrations. In 8 of 10 countries the favourite dog was born somewhere else.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Present day, Public attention, Wikidata, wildlife, World, world maps

• The Famous Few

  

  Britain and Ireland have 4,147 hillforts. Eleven of them take half of all Wikipedia reading. A data study of which ancient sites get attention, and why: size, castles, archaeologists and editors.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  archaeology, Britain, buildings, Famous people, Hillforts, history, Ireland, Prehistory, Present day, Public attention, UK, Wikipedia

• Looking them up: Wikipedia attention, Facebook engagement and votes

  

  Before elections, parties’ share of Wikipedia views tracked their vote share more closely than their share of Facebook engagement did. But neither beat simply knowing how they did last time.

  Tristan Hotham

  Research papers

  Election forecasting, elections, Europe, Facebook, Public attention, research access, Social Media, Wikipedia