Wikidata Map – 19 months on

This entry is part 4 of 17 in the series Wikidata Map

The last Wikidata map generation, as last discussed here and as originally created by Denny Vrandečić was on the 7th of November 2013. Recently I have started rewriting the code that generates the maps, stored on github, and boom, a new map! The old code The old version of the wikidata-analysis repo, which generated the maps (along with other … Read more

Wikidata map visualizations

the Wikidata LogoIn 2013 and 2014 I made a few presentations to various groups of people talking about Wikidata.

When creating those presentations I used as many graphical representations of the data in Wikidata as possible to try and give people an clearer picture of what is already stored.

One of the best visualisations at the time was the Wikidata map created by Denny Vrandečić which came after the introduction of coordinate locations to Wikidata.

Below you can see a GIF showing the additions of the coordinate location property to Wikidata items over roughly the first 40 days of enabling the coordinates data type.

By Denny Vrandecic and Lydia Pintscher (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
 Below are some of the images that I extracted from the full map for use in my presentations. Although they are now quite outdated they are still great to look at!

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