The census
Authoritative source, reproduced unchanged. Exact Markdown ยท Agent copy with resolved links. These instructions govern research runs, not checkpoint interviews. They keep the run's own words: a room is a community, a mark an artwork, the analyst the aggregator, the case lead the community coder and the global model the population model.
The files that decide which communities are rooms. They record judgements, so they cannot be regenerated from downloads; the census page explains each step from 1,473 atlas artworks to 706 communities.
| File | What it holds | Kind |
|---|---|---|
MASTER-census.csv |
one row per community (777: the 763 the atlas links, 4 named on the
canvas, 9 credited in atlas descriptions, and r/TFLS, a redirect): its
counts in each window, the lexical screen, the coder's verdict, the
validation, and handable (1 for the 706) and
disposition |
counts from raw24, plus the judgements below applied |
census_740_mapping.csv |
each community and the atlas artworks credited to it, with its window counts | the atlas links as resolved by hand |
atlas_35_resolution_worksheet.csv |
the 35 links that matched no downloaded community at first, and the candidates for each | working sheet of the resolution |
atlas_link_unresolved.csv |
the 15 links that remain, and why each is not a community | judgement |
screen_audit.csv |
the rooms a coder read as none, beside their screen
hits |
the check that the screen and the coders agree |
validations.jsonl |
rooms whose membership a reading decided, with the evidence: four the screen flagged (27 August 2026), four named on the canvas and the Robin room behind a truncated link (26 September 2026) | judgement |
ROOM-RULES.md |
what counts as a room, rule by rule, for this yard and for venues_yard; the 706 rooms and the 71 discarded rows by Reddit's own name and id, and the links and makers that name no community (2026-10-04) | the rules stated; names from each venue's record |
ROOM-LIST.tsv |
the same lists, one line per name: reddit_name, subreddit_id, census_sub, status, coded, in_yard, disposition, why, name_source | data |
artworks_outside_population.csv |
the atlas artworks that credited none of the population on 26
September 2026 (312; three have since moved to r/TheFarLeftSide, and two
more left on 4 October 2026 with r/lehigh and r/upvote, #1725 and #1250,
not added as rows): why each is outside, its size, overlap with credited
artworks, surviving-pixel authors, and a kind read from its
description (the
report) |
counts from the atlas and the placement record, plus a judgement
(kind) |
Built 27 August 2026 and rebuilt 26 September 2026 (two records
collected again, three links resolved, four communities from the canvas)
by build_master_census.py and its three companions, in builders/ with the run order and what a
rerun needs. A handler starting a yard takes the rooms with
handable = 1.
Changed 4 October 2026
The rule for being there is writing about the event during the 73
hours the canvas was open, not any post in them (J: "we need only
communities in which there was some writing"). Two rows changed by hand
in MASTER-census.csv, each with its reason in
validation_note and a line in
validations.jsonl: r/lehigh
(event_talk_after_freeze, a new disposition: posts while
the canvas was open, but its writing about the event begins at hour
78.98) and r/upvote (screened_out: its one coded thread
names no canvas, drawing or placement). handable,
in_population and positive are 0 for both;
coder_verdict stays as the coders wrote it. The population
is 706. The builders, kept unchanged as the study's record, do not know
the new rule; a rebuild needs these two validations applied after
it.