De geschiedenis van de wereld in Wikipedia 100 seconden

A History of the World in 100 Seconds from Gareth Lloyd on Vimeo.

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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This is based on the thing that me and Tom Martin built at Matt Patterson's History Hackday. To make it, I built a python SAX Parser that sliced and diced an xml dump of all wikipedia articles (30Gb) and pulled out 424,000 articles with coordinates and 35,000 references to events. We managed to pair up 14,238 events with locations, and Tom wrote some Java to fiddle about with the coordinates and output frames. I've hacked around some more to add animation, because, you know, why not?

Het duurde even voor ik in de gaten had wat ik precies zag, maar het is indrukwekkend. Hieronder een statische weergave van de locatie van Wikipedia-lemma's


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