Visualizing Science and Tech Activity in Wikipedia

by Nathan Danforth on Friday, January 11, 2008 · 0 comments

in Data Mining, Statistics, Visualization

A little while ago, I found some new Wikipedia visualizations from the guys that brought you Visualizing Wikipedia – The Power Struggle.

Found at A Beautiful WWW, their new visualization attempts to highlight activity in regions of Wikipedia that are predominately math or science or technology.

We developed a program to classify Wikipedia articles as being one of these three categories (or none)… What’s striking is the science-related band (green-blue) that runs diagonal through the middle of the topic map.

Science Related Wikipedian Activity

To add more functionality to the visualization, there’s a Google Maps style zoomable version available.

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  • Data Mining - Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data typically using sophisticated data search capabilities and statistical algorithms.
  • Statistics - Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data.
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