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Terry Border: Idea as Quarry
Terry Border is another household-item artist and editorialist, and a quite funny one at that. Check out his site here. Student Warning: You already have everything you need to do your best work. Once you see his work you are forbidden from whining about your lack super speedy computer access or current software. This is obviously a professional at work, but any lower division undergrad bringing this much concept into a piece will be cut some slack on a still maturing craft. Idea, idea, idea.
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Designer + Wikipedia = World History in 100 Seconds
A History of the World in 100 Seconds
Many wikipedia articles have coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Me (@godawful) and Tom Martin (@heychinaski) cross referenced the two to create a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia’s view of world history. Watch as empires fall, wars break out and continents are discovered.
This won “Best Visualization” at Matt Patterson’s History Hackday in January, 2011. To make it, we parsed an xml dump of all wikipedia articles (30Gb) and pulled out 424,000 articles with coordinates and 35,000 references to events. Cross referencing these produced 15,500 events with locations. Then we mapped them over time.
More information and datasets: ragtag.info/?2011/?feb/?2/?history-world-100-seconds/
