On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Georg Wild <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Wikidatans, > > I'd like to quickly introduce you ViziData [1], a data visualization app > that I wrote as part of my bachelors thesis last year and will work on > improving in the coming months. It displays the geographical and > temporal location of events (currently only births and deaths of > humans are available in the prototype). The data is extracted from > Wikidata with Wikidata Toolkit. > > The tool means to show an interesting use of the data in Wikidata > (especially larger amounts) and can also give an impression about the > quality and completeness of the collected data on a larger scale. > > Planned improvements include: > * other datasets to display > * more efficient and useful timeline widget > * embedded tile map for orientation > * canvas rendering for performance > * information about events (e.g. listing persons who were born at > selected point) > * code quality :S > > > The source is available on Github under the MIT license [2] and the > corresponding paper can be read online [3] (in German only though). If > you have any questions or concerns about this project, feel free to > contact me :]
Very nice, Georg! Looking forward to more data sets to display. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
