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Semantic Cartography – Mapping Dodgy Goth Bands With Common Members Using Wikipedia Data

Several years ago I did some doodles using the Gephi network visualiser Semantic Web Import plugin to sketch out how various sorts of thing (philosophers, music genres, programming languages) were related in Wikipedia (or at least, DBpedia, the semantic web derivative of Wikipedia). A couple of days ago, I started sketching some new queries in a Jupyter … Continue reading “Semantic Cartography – Mapping Dodgy Goth Bands With Common Members Using Wikipedia Data”

Fragments – Wikipedia to Markdown

I’ve been sketching some ideas, pondering the ethics of doing an F1 review style book blending (openly licensed) content from Wikipedia race reports with some of my own f1datajunkie charts, and also wondering about the extent to which I could automatically generate Wikipedia style race report sentences from the data; I think the sentence generation, … Continue reading “Fragments – Wikipedia to Markdown”

Tracking Anonymous Wikipedia Edits From Specific IP Ranges

Via @davewiner’s blog, I spotted a link to @congressedits, “a bot that tweets anonymous Wikipedia edits that are made from IP addresses in the US Congress”. (For more info, see why @congressedits?, /via @ostephens.) I didn’t follow the link to the home page for that account (doh!), but in response to a question about whether … Continue reading “Tracking Anonymous Wikipedia Edits From Specific IP Ranges”

Mapping Related Musical Genres on Wikipedia/DBPedia With Gephi

Following on from Mapping How Programming Languages Influenced Each Other According to Wikipedia, where I tried to generalise the approach described in Visualising Related Entries in Wikipedia Using Gephi for grabbing datasets in Wikipedia related to declared influences between items within particular subject areas, here’s another way of grabbing data from Wikipedia/DBpedia that we can … Continue reading “Mapping Related Musical Genres on Wikipedia/DBPedia With Gephi”

Mapping How Programming Languages Influenced Each Other According to Wikipedia

By way of demonstrating how the recipe described in Visualising Related Entries in Wikipedia Using Gephi can easily be turned to other things, here’s a map of how different computer programming languages influence each other according to DBpedia/Wikipedia: Here’s the code that I pasted in to the Request area of the Gephi Semantic Web Import … Continue reading “Mapping How Programming Languages Influenced Each Other According to Wikipedia”

Visualising Related Entries in Wikipedia Using Gephi

Sometime last week, @mediaczar tipped me off to a neat recipe on the wonderfully named Drunks&Lampposts blog, Graphing the history of philosophy, that uses Gephi to map an influence network in the world of philosophy. The data is based on the extraction of the “influencedBy” relationship over philosophers referred to in Wikipedia using the machine … Continue reading “Visualising Related Entries in Wikipedia Using Gephi”

Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets

Prompted in part by a presentation I have to give tomorrow as an OU eLearning community session (I hope some folks turn up – the 90 minute session on Mashing Up the PLE – RSS edition is the only reason I’m going in…), and in part by Scott Leslie’s compelling programme for a similar duration … Continue reading “Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets”

GenAI Outputs as “Almost Information” from Second-hand Secondary Information Sources?

Checking my feeds, AI-hype continues but I get the sense there are also other signs of “yes, but…” and “well, actually…” starting to appear. In the RAG (retrieval augmented generation), I’m also noticing more items relating to organising your documentary source data better organised, which in part seems to boil down to improving the retrieval … Continue reading “GenAI Outputs as “Almost Information” from Second-hand Secondary Information Sources?”

Fragmentary Notes On Producing A New AI Qualification…

A process is in play internally for creating a new AI qualification, which will probably require the creation of some new modules. When I joined the OU as an academic — in the Technology Faculty as it then was, in the “Telematics” Department (not cars… I don’t know what it was supposed to mean either; … Continue reading “Fragmentary Notes On Producing A New AI Qualification…”