Birthplaces of All Turing Award Winners (basically the Nobel Prize of computer science) [OC]

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1. I got (most of) the birthplaces from Wikipedia, using the wikidata query from this blogpost (but for the Turing Award instead of the Field’s Medal): https://efosong.net/blog/nobel-birthplace/

   That blog post also has the same thing for other awards, and you can hover over each dot and see the details. But I didn’t like that the dots didn’t combine and get bigger if they overlap (you can’t really see that so many are from the NYC area, for example), so I made my own versions.

   I made the map using a spaghetti code C++ program that I wrote yesterday morning. I could put that on github if someone’s interested.

   The map projection is Eckert IV (equal area).

2. Not to be confused with Turing Test Winners, who are not all human.

3. All of these recent spate of birthplaces across the world would be better as heat maps. I cannot tell if I’m missing a small dot in the whole of the global south, doubly so when on mobile.

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