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Show HN: Data Is Plural – A weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets

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TinyLetter archive: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/archive

Structured archive: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4jucl...

Most recent edition, sent yesterday: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural...

This is great!! I just subscribed.

It would be helpful if each past issue in the archive list would tell what sets it presents, instead of all having the same subtitle...?

Agreed. The archive uses the first line of the newsletter as the summary. I've been using the same tagline as the first line. But, for future newsletters, I think I'll make the first line more descriptive. E.g., for the most recent: "Maternity leave, art collections, firearm dealers, New Guinea languages, and aircraft-wildlife strikes." Would that be an improvement?

Yes, it would! ;-)

Thanks for posting those links. The original link isn't to explanatory about what types of content the mailing list will have.

Good point. I've now updated the text on the landing page, to the extent that's possible with TinyLetter.

One of the very, very few "Show HN's" I would give an A+ for the idea. Even better would be a focus on FTP, e.g., datasets available as bulk data without silly "API's". In the early days of the internet posting about such datasets was quite common. Meanwhile I have to continually write flex scanners to transform MySQL and JSON into something useable with kdb (someday maybe I can do all the munging in q). Not to mention all the "scraping". But I am so used to cutting through Javscript and other cruft it does not bother me anymore.

Dataset discovery. A+ for idea.

This looks excellent. Are you wedded to the email newsletter distribution format, or would RSS be reasonable as well?

Great idea! Subscribed. Have you posted to Datatau? I'll bet there's some folks over there that would be interested as well.

Thanks! I haven't yet, but that's a great idea. Will do so shortly.

Very cool idea, I've just subscribed as well.

And I am thinking about starting the same thing, but for my own country. The current links are almost exclusively from the US.

So no one is using dat, despite all the hype? http://dat-data.com/

Love the idea. Is this the first of its kind?

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