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Dog Name Creativity Survey of New York City
(screenshots or sketches up here)
We started this project to see if art and cultural institutions in the environment have an impact on how creative people name their dogs. This was not possible with the date from Zurich because name-dataset does not contain information about the location and the dataset about the owners does not include the dognames. We choose to stick with our idea but used a different dataset: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset.
The creativity of name is measured by each letter in the name, which give points according to the letter frequency. The data for the cultural environment comes from Wikidata.
After some data-cleaning with OpenRefine and failed attempts with OpenCalc we got the following code:
Visualisations were made with D3: https://d3js.org/
Data
Hundedaten der Stadt Zürich:
NYC Dog Licensing Dataset:
Team
- Birk Weiberg
- Dominik Sievi