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the real face of white australia

In many of the presentations I’ve given in recent times I’ve managed to include a question raised by Tim Hitchcock in his chapter in The Virtual Representation of the Past. Tim asks: What changes when we examine the world through the collected fragments of knowledge that we can recover about a single person, reorganised as [...]

Posted 21 September 2011 † tim § archives § experiments ‡ Comments (10) ° Also tagged: ,

Headline roulette

I’ve been doing a fair bit of coding in recent weeks and I thought I’d better write a few details down before I forget about them. As previously noted, I’ve been gathering together various historical data sets for a project at the National Museum of Australia. One resource that I was keen on including was [...]

Posted 23 March 2010 † tim § experiments ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Out of the cube

For a project that I’m working on at the National Museum of Australia, I’ve started collecting various sources of date-identified data. Most recently I had a go at extracting historical population data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data can all be downloaded as .xls files, but they’re not simple, flat spreadsheets – they’re [...]

Posted 26 February 2010 † tim § experiments ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Cloudy biographies and portrait walls

With a bit of time to play over Christmas I had a go at applying some of the techniques described at ProgrammingHistorian to the ADB Online.  I thought it might be interesting to create some word clouds, both for what they could reveal about the content of the ADB, and to see what they had [...]

Posted 24 January 2009 † tim § experiments ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,