Adding basic Wikidata info for "Edinburgh plague of 1585" got me looking at the level of data for other infectious outbreaks, and finding it a wee bit bare. Even the relatively recent "1964 Aberdeen Read more
Tag: SPARQL
Hydro-electric and wind power stations
I began looking at the Wikidata information on hydro-electric power stations, whose development was a feature of 20th century Scotland. Some of the date information is scant, and some is 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
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
Industrial past
From the 1750s until around 40 years ago, Scotland was marked by clusters of iron, steel and manufacturing heavy industries. Little remains. Attempting to map these using Wikidata and SPARQL shows Read more
Scottish foods (again)
Since my previous post and graphic about Scottish foodstuffs, I noticed that Camp Coffee was missing - and having noticed that, realised that Irn Bru was also missing. Such important parts of the Read more
Co-operative societies
Attempting to visualise how Co-operative Societies spread then consolidated through the 19th and 20th centuries was only partially successful. The data available were rather lacking. For example, Read more
Observatories
Another visualisation using Wikidata to show aspects of Scottish Culture. This map highlights the various Observatory buildings around Scotland. Query Read more