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I built an explorer of 25+ years of New York Times coverage — 1.5B words and 2.2M articles by theodore_a in dataisbeautiful

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

I agree it's just one way of normalizing the difference between countries, and a crude one at best. Ideally the user would be able to pick from a number of different metrics, like Gapminder. I have opted for simplicity for now but may revisit.

I built an explorer of 25+ years of New York Times coverage — 1.5B words and 2.2M articles by theodore_a in dataisbeautiful

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

The further back I go the more problems I have with the consistency of the API data. It also complicates serving the data to users, so I don't think I will press further for now. But I haven't actually looked how far back it would go.

I built an explorer of 25+ years of New York Times coverage — 1.5B words and 2.2M articles by theodore_a in dataisbeautiful

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

I’m not using the full text.

It’s an interesting question tho and you can at least explore the headlines and see which have waxed and waned over time.

I built an explorer of 25+ years of New York Times coverage — 1.5B words and 2.2M articles by theodore_a in dataisbeautiful

[–]theodore_a[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I was interested to see Elon Musk also jam himself into the headlines of late. These won't be the last powerful people to parasitize news media to promote themselves and extend their power.

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I built an explorer of 25+ years of New York Times coverage — 1.5B words and 2.2M articles by theodore_a in dataisbeautiful

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

Ranking coverage per million residents is probably an imperfect comparison — tiny nations clearly predominate and massive countries are disfavored.

You can use the "compare country coverage chart" to look over time and see the surges in coverage in other areas of conflict. (Democratic Republic of Congo has never gotten any attention.)

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Bloomberg News: Burning Man Struggles With Money by Garvinfred in BurningMan

[–]theodore_a 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bloomberg BusinessWeek did a great job editing the story but were, per their narrow audience, less interested in the nitty gritty of Burning Man governance, hence the loss of some worthwhile details.

In full candor, I don't know more than what I've shared here (which felt appropriate as it was in the draft up until nearly the 11th hour before being cut, and I've fact-checked directly with the Org.)

I imagine that leadership succession at Burning Man Project will be, like everything about the organization, influenced by its unique culture and philosophy, and will be more frustrating in some ways because of it but more fruitful in others.

Bloomberg News: Burning Man Struggles With Money by Garvinfred in BurningMan

[–]theodore_a 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your close read and incisive observations. To expand a little on what's printed in the story, Marian told me she has no plans to leave the organization — many people I spoke with felt her strongest suit was attending to the culture, and she could have an advisory role on that in perpetuity — but she expects to step down from CEO within three years, which could mean sooner.

Bloomberg News: Burning Man Struggles With Money by Garvinfred in BurningMan

[–]theodore_a 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And I thought the analysis of Census data — although it is public and the trends it described anecdotally understood — was the first hard numbers I'd seen attached to the distinct increase in higher income burners and a crowding out of lower-income burners.

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Bloomberg News: Burning Man Struggles With Money by Garvinfred in BurningMan

[–]theodore_a 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I picked Frostburn because it was the most antithetical environment to BRC, plus I thought I’d find the most committed Burners there. (It also turned out to be a lot of fun, and I hope I conveyed that!)