On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Georg Wild
<georg.wild@mailbox.tu-dresden.de> 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

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