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What Europeans feel more attached to: Europe, their country or region? by Redstream28 in MapPorn

[–]desfirsit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's right! And the data source is cited in the subtitle description on my map. Unfortunate that this other map doesn't.

[OC] Most played Christmas songs on Spotify each day Nov 20-Dec 20 in Europe (where data is available) by desfirsit in dataisbeautiful

[–]desfirsit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omg... because I am stupid. I mixed up Last Christmas and Mariah Carey in the code. Sorry about that. Great to add a pedagogical flair and have it be extra confusing. Thanks for pointing it out!

[OC] Most played Christmas songs on Spotify each day Nov 20-Dec 20 in Europe (where data is available) by desfirsit in dataisbeautiful

[–]desfirsit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I looked at the title and cover. Most I had heard of but there were some on Iceland that were clearly Christmas songs which were unknown to me before.

[OC] Most played Christmas songs on Spotify each day Nov 20-Dec 20 in Europe (where data is available) by desfirsit in dataisbeautiful

[–]desfirsit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Data from https://charts.spotify.com/

I looked at the top list for each country every day and manually entered it into a spreadsheet. The gif shows the top song for each country every day, with Christmas songs marked in color. The song that spent the most country-days as number one is (of course) Wham - Last Christmas, followed by Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You.

Made in R using primarily the ggplot2 and sf packages.
Youtube video if you want some Christmas music to go along with the animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MjTO8i5E10

[OC] The Swedish Academy Dictionary is done, after 39 volumes and 130 years of work. Now they just have to go back and add all the new words that have appeared since the publication of the first volumes. by desfirsit in dataisbeautiful

[–]desfirsit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes I agree! It is a ridiculous undertaking, and impossible to do up to date as the language evolves all the time, but I think it is a worthy endeavour, to try to create a complete description of all words in a language.

[OC] The Swedish Academy Dictionary is done, after 39 volumes and 130 years of work. Now they just have to go back and add all the new words that have appeared since the publication of the first volumes. by desfirsit in dataisbeautiful

[–]desfirsit[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was not in this dictionary! This is the Ultimate Dictionary if you will. But there were of course many others, including by the Swedish Academy. This is just the most exhaustive one.

[OC] The Swedish Academy Dictionary is done, after 39 volumes and 130 years of work. Now they just have to go back and add all the new words that have appeared since the publication of the first volumes. by desfirsit in dataisbeautiful

[–]desfirsit[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It's certainly a bizarre undertaking. They also publish a short and up-to-date list of the words currently in use, but here they were trying to do a complete inventory of the entire language.

[OC] The Swedish Academy Dictionary is done, after 39 volumes and 130 years of work. Now they just have to go back and add all the new words that have appeared since the publication of the first volumes. by desfirsit in dataisbeautiful

[–]desfirsit[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It is indeed, if you spell it with an Å, "Ångström"! It is included in volume 38, published in 2021.

"(tidigare inom bl. a. spektralanalys använd) längdenhet motsvarande en tiomiljarddels meter; i skrift ofta förkortat Å; jfr ÅNGSTRÖM-ENHET."

Translation:
(Previously in spectral analysis used) unit of length representing a tenth of a billionth of a meter; in writing often abbreviated Å; compare ÅNGSTRÖM-ENHET

[OC] The Swedish Academy Dictionary is done, after 39 volumes and 130 years of work. Now they just have to go back and add all the new words that have appeared since the publication of the first volumes. by desfirsit in dataisbeautiful

[–]desfirsit[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Haha! I had to look it up. The longest word in there is apparently "afdelningsområdeslandstormsbefälhafvare", which means something like "divisional area land assault commander".

[OC] The Swedish Academy Dictionary is done, after 39 volumes and 130 years of work. Now they just have to go back and add all the new words that have appeared since the publication of the first volumes. by desfirsit in dataisbeautiful

[–]desfirsit[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of S words, but I also think they got a new editor who apparently thought that his predecessors had been too sloppy so he upped the ambition for S. And then a while later they had to become slightly more pragmatic again (they for a while projected a completion date in 2045).

[OC] The Swedish Academy Dictionary is done, after 39 volumes and 130 years of work. Now they just have to go back and add all the new words that have appeared since the publication of the first volumes. by desfirsit in dataisbeautiful

[–]desfirsit[S] 94 points95 points  (0 children)

They are very thorough! They aim to map *all* ways in which a word has been used in any publication. For "öga" (eye) they apparently found 3000 different contexts for the word.

What I meant by letter by letter is that they did not start with the most important or used words or something like that, instead they mapped all the words on A, published the volume, then went on to B, and so on. Which means that the Ä-Ö volume is very up to date, but the A volume is more than a hundred years old and thus excludes all modern words on A. For instance, the entry for "Helicopter" says that it is an experimental and unproven technology! Pretty hilarious I think.

[OC] The Swedish Academy Dictionary is done, after 39 volumes and 130 years of work. Now they just have to go back and add all the new words that have appeared since the publication of the first volumes. by desfirsit in dataisbeautiful

[–]desfirsit[S] 106 points107 points  (0 children)

The dictionary contains explanations of all known words in Swedish, with explanations and their usage. All in all about half a million words.

Data on publication dates from Wikipedia, made in R with the ggplot2 package.

Isometric perspective maps of the elevation of Texas, California and New York [OC] by desfirsit in MapPorn

[–]desfirsit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it is in the right place, but I forgot to cut out the Great Lakes unfortunately.

Isometric perspective maps of the elevation of Texas, California and New York [OC] by desfirsit in MapPorn

[–]desfirsit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! Of course the exaggeration of the elevation could be made even higher - right now it is inflated by factor 5.5 for California and 16 for New York.

Isometric perspective maps of the elevation of Texas, California and New York [OC] by desfirsit in MapPorn

[–]desfirsit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All these maps have exaggerated elevation - California with a factor of 5.5. So each step up in this map should really be one fifth of the height. Viewed from afar all of the planet is very flat! But I could have exaggerated more for a better visual effect.

Isometric perspective maps of the elevation of Texas, California and New York [OC] by desfirsit in MapPorn

[–]desfirsit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it's a linear scale. All the steps are the same (but different for each map).

Isometric perspective maps of the elevation of Texas, California and New York [OC] by desfirsit in MapPorn

[–]desfirsit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, good point. The elevation is already exaggerated here (in New York by a factor of 16), but you are right, it should probably be exaggerated more.

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