Category Archives: Application

Visualising 19th Century Reading in Australia

A description of a visualisation of some 19th century Australian borrowing records from the Australian Common Readers Project.

Feed Bag: A Simple RSS Archiver

One thing my recent survey of freely available data sets did not uncover was a collection of archived RSS feeds. This surprised me a little since I would imagine aggregators like Bloglines, Google Reader and AideRSS must have large databases of hundreds of thousands of RSS feeds.

Having seen how easy it is to create an [...]

A Meta-index of Data Sets

I had to go hunting around for some data to try some new ideas on recently. As handy as Google is, there’s still a fair bit of chaff from which to sort the wheat.

Fortunately, there is a lot of good stuff out there including well-organised indexes of data sets for various purposes. For my future reference (and [...]