After passing the John Logie Baird statue on the front at Helensburgh, I put together a query on inventors. But, whether seen on a map, a table or a graph, I am not sure this tells anything. What is Read more
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Distilleries
After looking at a couple of Articles for Deletion on Wikipedia, I began looking at the information on Wikidata about distilleries, bonded warehouses, etc., and generated a map. Then I began to Read more
Postwar rail network contraction
Creating an on-this-day Mastodon post to highlight the loss of an area service (usually associated with the Beeching cuts) has needed additional activity to extract information held in Wikipedia and Read more
Civic manufactures
In the 19th century several Scottish iron foundries became well-known for producing standardised objects, particularly civic fountains and bandstands. This Wikimedia Commons page utilises Listeria Read more
Capital punishment
Adjusting the Wikidata records for those executed after the 1820 Radical War led me to a broader query on the grim topic of people in Scotland who were subjected to judicial killing. Here is a map Read more
Industrial past
Seeking the extent to which Wikidata holds location traces of industrial locations (factories, mills, energy centres, distribution points), while trying to separate slightly from the HES Listed Read more
Theatre groups and people
Attempting to diagram theatre groups, with their founders and associated people where these can be identified. Still a work-in-progress. It may be that once more data are populated, this view becomes Read more
Art groups and artists
The changing groupings of artists over time are an example of networks in action. I think graphing these is a good example of the possibilities of using Wikidata to explore affinities. This diagram Read more
Rail disasters
The Wikipedia article about Wormit station mentioned a rail crash there in 1955. I looked at other crash articles and their corresponding Wikidata items to obtain the data items appropriate for one Read more
Sundials
There is a Wikipedia page here which indicates that sundials in Scotland had features distinct from those elsewhere. Here is a query which maps sundials across the country. Read more