A great use of your time on earth is to find something that isn’t on the Internet and put it there for future use by our hive mind.

Here’s one example:

A Wikipedia editor typed up 25,000 historical US city populations from the census, 4x what historians have had to work with. Here's a narrative visualization of the dataset. https://t.co/pmUJc68gPL pic.twitter.com/AHTQCiFqsy

— Benjamin Schmidt (@benmschmidt) March 12, 2018