Welcome back to a new episode of me engaging with a blog software. Nicer things first. I never had an Instagram account, but I wanted to setup some publish and subscribe possibility for photos I made and photos I want to make. Why not call it insta.slow-computing.com? I also stumbled across @dansup and his work […]
Improvements for the Wikidata Topicmaps UI
May she named Siri (iOS), Cortana (Windows), Helix or whatever, wikidata.org looks to become a pretty damn good place for algorithms to visit if they want to tell you some facts about the world. As these assistants might inform your actions in the world, it might be worth to get to know how such facts are structured and do look when aggregated […]
Wikidata Visualization challenge, May 2015
Official infos on this submission Resources being used: The Wikidata (MediaWiki) API, the Wikimedia Commons File API and DeepaMehta 4 as the GNU GPL 3 licensed plugin development environment. Video graphic: http://youtu.be/7pn1dHWNb3E Info graphic: See below, a map-image showing states currently “having¹ a diplomatic relationship” and “sharing¹ a border” according to wikidata, illustrating the concept […]