Comments for OUseful.Info, the blog... http://blog.ouseful.info Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:57:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Practical Visualisation Tools Presentation: #CASEprog by Tony Hirst http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/06/01/practical-visualisation-tools-presentation-caseprog/#comment-22503 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:57:09 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=7969#comment-22503 @Martin You interested in pairing up on this?

]]> Comment on Practical Visualisation Tools Presentation: #CASEprog by mhawksey http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/06/01/practical-visualisation-tools-presentation-caseprog/#comment-22500 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:08:27 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=7969#comment-22500 Sounds like you’ve got your Knights Foundation Data Challenge[1] entry ;)

Martin

[1] http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/post/24130238607/knight-news-challenge-data-is-now-open

]]> Comment on Enter the Market – Course Data by mhawksey http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/05/29/enter-the-market-course-data/#comment-22467 Wed, 30 May 2012 10:40:27 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=7956#comment-22467 At the danger of looking like I’m spamming your post some links which might be useful to you and others:

Owen Stephens UCAS Course code lookup and xcri-cap format http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2010/03/ucas-course-code-lookup-take-two/

I’ve also opened some issues with the xcri-aggregator data:

Duplicate identifiers in OAI-PMH data? https://github.com/k-int/XCRI-Aggregator/issues/47
Aggregator sparql interface – timing out https://github.com/k-int/XCRI-Aggregator/issues/46

Martin

]]> Comment on F1 Championship Points as a d3.js Powered Sankey Diagram by Tony Hirst http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/05/24/f1-championship-points-as-a-d3-js-powered-sankey-diagram/#comment-22441 Tue, 29 May 2012 11:05:46 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=7899#comment-22441 Hi Bruce – Thanks for pointing to that post (Odd’s on I’d have also picked it up via a trackback/clickthru if you’d linked to this post too;-)

I don’t tend to use Excel much, but it seems like you’ve get a great set of tools built around it?

Out of interest, do you use NodeXL at all? And/or have you tinkered with outputting various graph formats (eg GEXF, which renders quite nicely with http://sigmajs.org/ )?

]]> Comment on F1 Championship Points as a d3.js Powered Sankey Diagram by brucemcpherson (@brucemcpherson) http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/05/24/f1-championship-points-as-a-d3-js-powered-sankey-diagram/#comment-22440 Tue, 29 May 2012 10:55:04 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=7899#comment-22440 Tony
Thanks for this post – I hadnt had time to look at D3.js, but your mashup inspired to have a look. It is really pretty straightforward. I followed your cut and paste lead, and created a ‘Sankey diagram straight from Excel’ capability as below.

https://sites.google.com/a/mcpher.com/share/Home/excelquirks/d3/sankey

Thanks for your prolific blogging – it keeps giving me ideas
Bruce

]]> Comment on Using Data From Linked Data Datastores the Easy Way (i.e. in a spreadsheet, via a formula) by Dashboard Views as Data Source Directories: Open Data Communities « OUseful.Info, the blog… http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/02/17/using-data-from-linked-data-datastores-the-easy-way/#comment-22438 Tue, 29 May 2012 10:15:41 +0000 http://ouseful.wordpress.com/?p=2847#comment-22438 [...] cells, as for example described in Viewing SPARQLed data.gov.uk Data in a Google Spreadsheet and Using Data From Linked Data Datastores the Easy Way (i.e. in a spreadsheet, via a formula). This loss of metadata in the query response is potentially risky, although I would argue the loss [...]

]]> Comment on Viewing SPARQLed data.gov.uk Data in a Google Spreadsheet by Dashboard Views as Data Source Directories: Open Data Communities « OUseful.Info, the blog… http://blog.ouseful.info/2009/11/26/viewing-sparqled-data-gov-uk-data-in-a-google-spreadsheet/#comment-22437 Tue, 29 May 2012 10:15:39 +0000 http://ouseful.wordpress.com/?p=2533#comment-22437 [...] use =importData() formula to pull actual values into particular cells, as for example described in Viewing SPARQLed data.gov.uk Data in a Google Spreadsheet and Using Data From Linked Data Datastores the Easy Way (i.e. in a spreadsheet, via a formula). [...]

]]> Comment on A Bit of NewsJam MoJo – SocialGeo Twitter Map by Film Research Using the SocialGeo Twitter Map | FilmClips http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/05/30/a-bit-of-newsjam-mojo-socialgeo-twitter-map/#comment-22427 Mon, 28 May 2012 16:38:21 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=5542#comment-22427 [...] for film research (not least one of its original intentions, to help verify sources – see Tony Hirst’s blog for more details), and while it is more suited to contemporary cinema (I would expect a search for [...]

]]> Comment on Inter-Council Payments and the Google Fusion Tables Network Graph by Using Aggregated Local Council Spending Data for Reverse Spending (Payments to) Lookups « OUseful.Info, the blog… http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/05/21/inter-council-payments-in-the-new-look-google-fusion-tables/#comment-22423 Mon, 28 May 2012 15:40:31 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=7870#comment-22423 [...] Inter-Council Payments and the Google Fusion Tables Network Graph, I demonstrated a recipe for graphing the extent to which county councils made payments to each [...]

]]> Comment on University Funding – A Wider View by Sketching Spending Flows to Serco Using OpenlyLocal Aggregated Spending Data « OUseful.Info, the blog… http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/03/30/university-funding-a-wider-view/#comment-22416 Sat, 26 May 2012 22:36:14 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=7413#comment-22416 [...] also: University Funding – A Wider View Rate this:Share this:Like this:LikeBe the first to like this [...]

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