HurlingWiki

About HurlingWiki

HurlingWiki is a Hurling Knowledge Site that shows how MIT's D4M associative arrays can hold sports facts as sparse triples. HurlingWiki began with Fohenagh: the club, its players and its stories.

What is D4M?

D4M means Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model. It was developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, with foundational work by Jeremy Kepner and collaborators. Associative arrays let you store and query sparse multi-dimensional data using simple algebra-like operations — perfect for linking players, clubs, and matches without a heavy schema.

Official site: https://d4m.mit.edu/

How it works

  • Seed facts live in data/seed.json as (row, col, val) triples.
  • AssocArray supports getrow, getcol, and simple search.
  • Right now the board holds 55,162 triples across 4838 rows.
  • Community stories you submit wait in a private queue and never mix into official stats.

By the numbers

Clubs
69 club entries, 1 fully populated (Fohenagh).
Players
1,909
Games
1,693
Clippings and sources
307
Stories
11
Triples
55,162

A triple is one linked fact (for example, player – played in – game).

What this site draws on

  • Newspaper archives, credited to Irish Newspaper Archives. 242 cited mentions are on the site now.
  • A History of Fohenagh, by Tony O'Gorman.

    About the book. Published by Fohenagh Community Council. Ask locally for a copy; a copy is held by the National Library of Ireland.

  • Club photos, and clipping collections kept by members.
  • Visitor uploads. The editor approves each one before it goes up, which is how the site keeps growing.

Coming next

  • Ask a question about the club
  • More camogie and football history
  • Team photos
  • The Ahascragh and Ahascragh-Fohenagh pages
  • More clubs

GBuilt with help from Grok Bot42, an AI assistant for research and coding. Grok Bot is an AI assistant for research and coding. It does not decide which fact goes on a page. A printed source does.

Built by Dr Garry Lohan · Google Scholar · LinkedIn

Data model: D4M, from MIT Lincoln Laboratory (d4m.mit.edu).

We use cookieless, aggregate visitor statistics (Vercel Analytics); no personal tracking.