Show HN: PG Number – I scraped 100k pages to find proximity to Paul Graham(pgnumber.com)7 points·by mikegee_·3 lata temu·3 commentspgnumber.comShow HN: PG Number – I scraped 100k pages to find proximity to Paul Grahamhttps://www.pgnumber.com/Erdős Number is an individual's "collaborative distance" to Paul Erdős.I calculated the "PG number" for everybody Paul Graham thanks in his essays.I then recursively found their blogs, and extracted the people that they thank in their essays.This is still a work in progress. The data is open-source and I'm continuing to add edges on Github (linked on the website).4 commentsPost comment[–]h2odragon·3 lata temureplyNice.You could use open data from Congress, and do this to present a "who introduced / co sponsored which bill" web. Probably get some commercial users of that if you wanted.[–]mikegee_·3 lata temureplyThank you!This is super interesting, I'll have to look into this.[+][deleted]·3 lata temu[–]subtech·3 lata temureplyThis is sick!
I calculated the "PG number" for everybody Paul Graham thanks in his essays.
I then recursively found their blogs, and extracted the people that they thank in their essays.
This is still a work in progress. The data is open-source and I'm continuing to add edges on Github (linked on the website).