Big Data for Dead People.

Tim HitchcockUniversity of Hertfordshire

 

www.oldbaileyonline.org

www.londonlives.org

www.connectedhistories.org

Locating London’s Past

Curated Digital Resources

API

Commercial and Paywall Resources

Tools and VisualisationsResearch SpacesPublishing SpacesUp-to-date GUIs

Connected Histories Indexes

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API Independent APIsV&A, Tate, BM

Data re-used, new-used and linked

Distribution of trial lengths in words for ‘killing’ displayed in red; all other trials in grey. ‘Killing’ includes all trials tagged as including the offences of, ‘Infanticide’, ‘murder’, ‘petty treason’, ‘manslaughter’, and ‘killing: other’, by the Old Bailey online.

Distribution of trial lengths in words for ‘killing’ displayed in red; all other trials in grey.  ‘Killing’ includes all trials tagged as including the offences of, ‘Infanticide’, ‘murder’, ‘petty treason’, ‘manslaughter’, and ‘killing: other’, by the Old Bailey online. 

An extract of the buffered and trimmed polygons – Locating London’s Past. www.locatinglondon.org

‘horse’, ‘mare’ and ‘gelding’ from the Old Bailey, mapped by ‘street’.

The geographical distribution of colours in the Old Bailey – In small blocks

Katy Börner, Plug-and-Play Macroscopes

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 54 No. 3, Pages 60-6910.1145/1897852.1897871

Some of the web sites illustrated along the way:

Discontents (Tim Sherratt’s blog): http://discontents.com.au/

Datamining with Criminal Intent: http://criminalintent.org/

Locating London’s Past: http://www.locatinglondon.org/

Old Bailey Online: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org

London Lives: http://www.londonlives.org/

Connected Histories: http://www.connectedhistories.org