I’ve been having fun with a new search engine for graphs call Zanran. Zanran crawls the web and classifies content in a number of formats including PDF, excel, html and image. Resources that it classifies as either graphical presentations of…
Archive for May 2011
The BBC today revealed that near-infrared satellite imagery taken of Egyptian archaeological sites have led to some significant new potential discoveries, including the identification of 17 candidates for buried pyramids (of which two have been confirmed, according to the BBC). … Continue reading →
We’ve just completed a mapping/data visualization project for One.org, the watchdog group that tracks the G8 and EU’s spending commitments to Africa. The site represents each member country as a flag-filled circle, sized according to the relative size …
HASTAC is currently hiring a full time staff assistant to perform a variety of complex administrative duties.
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A while back, Google showed how Influenza outbreaks correlated to searches for flu-related terms with Google Flu Trends. It helped researchers and policy-makers estimate flu activity much sooner than with previous methods. Google Correlate is the evolution of Flu Trends in that now you can correlate search trends with not just flu cases, but with [...]
Why Twitter and other social media are what you make of it.
The best way to learn how to visualize data is to grab a dataset and see what you can do with it. You can read as many tips and tricks as you want, but you’re not going to get any better until you actually try. Contests are a fun way to do this. Participate So [...]
Phase two of the British Library’s project to digitise all of its ca. 1,000 Greek manuscripts is now well under way. This phase — also generously funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation) — will digitise and make publicly available a further 250 manuscripts, adding to the 284 manuscripts digitised in phase one. We are currently about half way through this second phase and plan to publish the digitised manuscripts in batches during the rest of this year on our Digitised Manuscripts viewer. Add MS 5111, f. 12r. Portrait of St Matthew the Evangelist. A new batch of manuscripts has now…
In the late eighteenth century, advances in steam-powered presses and machine-made paper and ink made books affordable for the masses. Before that, a family might have a Bible, but only the clergy and aristocrats owned books. According to technol…
The short paper I presented on Tuesday, May 24 2011 at the “Flash Symposium: Short papers on short fiction” at the School of Arts, Birkbeck College, London.
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Brief report from the International Conference on Latin American Cybercultural Studies at the University of Liverpool and “Flash Symposium: Short papers on short fiction” at the School of Arts, Birkbeck College, organised by Zara Di…
I guess Google Correlate [googlelabs.com] is a dream come true for any person appreciating statistics and social science (or just likes to explore which line graphs match up). It is Google’s newest addition to its already rich and powerful collection …
The ship has been a popular metaphor for statecraft since at least the Ancient Greeks. The ‘ship of state’ was mentioned by Aeschylus in Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), and more influentially by Plato in his Republic (380 BC). &…
The IBM Visual Communication Lab published their first of what I hope many sketches exploring topics covered by The New York Times and its authors called NYTimes Writes, by Irene Ros. Start with a search term, and the tool will fetch related articles from the past 30 days. You’ll get something that looks like the [...]
A couple of interesting and very different stories today: There is a new data engine on the block : Zanran is a search engine for data that is a little closer to a traditional search engine. It doesn’t provide mechanisms…
