Mapping Wikipedia is a groundbreaking visualisation of the world mapped according to articles in 7 different languages. The map displays both the global patterns and the vast number of geo-located items. The dataset was produced by the Oxford Internet Institute as part of a project that examines Wikipedia in the Middle East and North Africa.
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A Guide To Heuristic Website Reviews
In this article, we’ll explore a scoring system for rating and comparing websites, we’ll visualize those ratings using infographics, and we’ll see what data and structure this method provides for reviewing websites.
Ten Oddities And Secrets About JavaScript
This article… is a collection of JavaScript’s oddities and well-kept secrets. Some sections will hopefully give you insight into how these curiosities can be useful to your code, while other sections are pure WTF material.
Smashing Magazine: Ten Oddities And Secrets About JavaScript
mySociety cache of OS OpenData and more
This is the mySociety cache of OS OpenData, released 1st April 2010, and other related similarly-licensed data, as allowed under the licences.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
I have lived in Japan for several years, programming in a professional capacity, and I have broken many systems by the simple expedient of being introduced into them. (Most people call me Patrick McKenzie, but I’ll acknowledge as correct any of six different “full” names, any many systems I deal with will accept precisely none of them.) Similarly, I’ve worked with Big Freaking Enterprises which, by dint of doing business globally, have theoretically designed their systems to allow all names to work in them. I have never seen a computer system which handles names properly and doubt one exists, anywhere.
So, as a public service, I’m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions are wrong. Try to make less of them next time you write a system which touches names.
Kalzumeus Software: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
Are we running out of oil? The world in energy statistics
New figures provide a fascinating insight into how we consume power – and how much of it we have left
The Guardian: Are we running out of oil? The world in energy statistics
A one-way street to postcode madness
An up-to-date list of addresses is vital for local authorities – but they have to pay for the data they created themselves