A few days ago, the great Revolutions blog posted (“Visualizing the census“) about a new utility called StatJump where you can visualize data from the 2010 US Census using, of course, R. Pretty impressive. The image here shows the percentage of students graduating High School, by county. There are tons of canned visualizations — just click one of the menu items (e.g. “Social Demographic Data”) on the home page. You can also run your own searches, though it only seems to return the data in a table — i.e. I haven’t figured out how to generate these maps from my own search. Very powerful tool, considering all those data being searched.
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StatJump – Data Search Made Easy
July 11th, 2010Welcome to Woruldhord
July 10th, 2010
Dr. Stuart Lee at the Oxford Computing Services department, has begun a new website, Woruldhord (Old English for World-hoard),
to collect together into an online hoard, digital objects related to the teaching, study, or research of Old English and the Anglo-Saxon period of history.
What a wonderful way to collect and revel in Old English material, even (especially?) if it’s not part of your daily life any more.
Looks like Dr. Lee created other websites, one a digital archive for World War I poetry and another, Dragons in the Sky, for “English-Speaking Communities at the Close of the Millennia” (although it hasn’t been updated recently — the July 2006 article by Dr Catherine Clarke, “Compensation Culture,” is still marked “New”).
Source: medievalists.net post (http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/05/public-asked-to-help-created-world’s-largest-archive-on-anglo-saxon-england/)
Timelines: sources from history from the British Library
February 5th, 2010
BL Timelines screenshot
The British Library has released a new website, Timelines: sources from history, where users can traverse history “from Magna Carta to Obama.” From to the website:
The interactive timeline allows you to explore British Library collection items chronologically, from medieval times to the present day. It includes a diverse combination of texts: those that allow glimpses of everyday life (handbills, posters, letters, diaries), remnants of political events (charters, speeches, campaign leaflets), and the writings of some of our best known historical and literary figures.
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Create and Use Barcodes to Simplify Your Book List
January 9th, 2010
barcode example (converted to png)
In keeping track of my books, I have been looking for a simple way to generate barcodes as individual graphics that I could embed in my book list. I think I’ve found it: Dan Bornstein’s Barcode Server, which I found at the BarcodesInc‘s UPC/EAN Barcode Generator.While the online version is nice, I wanted something a little more flexible and robust, so I downloaded the C source code.
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New Feature: Typekit support
January 5th, 2010
Snapshot of the Typekit Kit Editor
I just updated the site with 2 new fonts from Typekit: Chunk for the headers and Droid Serif for the body copy. You can also see which faces I’m using. Although it’s an experiment for now, the potential looks tremendous. After I read that the Harvard Business Publishing is using Typekit on their HBR website, hbr.org, I thought it would be worth a trial run. What are the benefits? How much does it cost?
