Mike Love’s been posting on his blog about graphing quantitative data in Freebase. Check out this graph of skyscraper height graphed against year of construction:
I love how you can see a burst of construction in the 1930s then a gap during WW2.
Mike’s also graphed maximum aircraft speeds and, getting a bit meta, the number of topics for each Freebase type. Go check it out!
May 6th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Freebase treemap: freemap
I took the domain, type, and topic count data from the previous post and fed it into the Treemap java applet by University of Maryland HCI Lab.
If I wait a few months and repeat the scrape, I will color this by percent change in topic count.
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