Creating a map of the world’s top ten most populated cities with Matplotlib and Basemap. Data from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population
A simple script to harvest Tuhonohono metadata and images. Beware of line 32. More: http://fogonwater.com/blog/2013/12/the-colours-of-tuhonohono/
CartoCSS file for post on hazy memory maps. http://fogonwater.com/blog/2013/12/argumentum-ornithologicum-and-uncertain-cartographies/
D3.js visualisation of 2011 New Zealand electorate seat results.
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This gist contains two attempts to describe the artist Rita Angus as an EDM Agent contextual entity using the JSON-LD format. They are intended to facilitate conversation between DigitalNZ and Europeana rather than indicate a final data format.
rita_angus_v1.json
is close to the examples expressed in the "JSON-LD profile for EDM contextual entities" proposal document.rita_angus_v2a.json
deviates significantly from thev1
context mapping structure. The document's fieldnames are terms likename
anddescription
, which differ from the EDM Agent schemaskos:prefLabel
andrdaGr2:biographicalInformation
fields.rita_angus_v2b.json
references the@context
section rather then presenting it inline. This is the default format that we are likely to adopt.
The rita_angus_v2
examples follows the model presented by Manu Spooney in the JSON-LD W3.org context specs. See: [EXAMPLE 5: In-line context defini
Recommended reading for Indie Maps + DIY Cartography Auckland Laneway Learning class.
- "Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas", Denis Wood (2010).
- "You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination", Katharine Harmon (2003).
- "Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences", Mark Monmonier (1993).
- "Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps", Jacques Bertin (1983)
- "Maps and Diagrams", F. J. Monkhouse and H. R. Wilkinson (1952).
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<title>people's lives</title> | |
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.6/d3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script> | |
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The Data Poets' Society is a Twitter joke that grew into a group who meet every couple of months to talk about data, visualisation and storytelling. We are scientists, artists, journalists, software developers, business professionals, students, museum folk, historians and geographers. We don't do formal talks. Instead we have a brief show and tell at the start of each meeting and spend the rest of the time sharing anecdotes and ideas over drinks and food.
At our first meeting we compiled a list of things we wanted to get out of Auckland Data Poets' Society. The numbers in brackets indicate how many votes an item received.
- (8) "Art" of data visualisation.
- (6) Seeing other peoples' stuff.
- (5) Telling stories with data.
- (5) Making stuff.
- (4) Understanding the craft*.
- (4) Exploring possible concepts.
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