Posts for Visualization

Processing every Wikipedia article

2011 February 10

I thought it might be worth writing a quick follow up to the Wikipedia Visualization piece. Being able to parse and process all of Wikipedia's articles in a reasonable amount of time opens up fantastic opportunities for data mining and analysis. What's more, it's easy once you know how.

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A history of the world in 100 seconds

2011 February 02

Many Wikipedia articles are tagged with geographic coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Cross referencing these two subsets and plotting them year on year adds up to a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia's view of world history.

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