Pipes

In our sandbox this week we had Tony Hirst from OUseful.info come in and deliver a great session on both mapping data using google docs, yahoo pipes as well as Gephi to map social networks. This is how we created a map of the UK's largest towns and cities by population.

We created location based spreadsheet by scraping a Wikipedia table, then published it as a csv spreadsheet using google docs.

Piped csv file through yahoo pipes - using regex & location builder module -
http://pipes.yahoo.com/leonpuplett/uktownpop

Run pipe - creates yahoo map.
copy link from "get as kml" and pasts into maps.google.com
Can embed:


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Olympic Stadium Timeline

Olympic Stadium Timeline test for ELO.
I've been working on an interactive timeline for East London Olympics about the history of the Olympic Stadium so far.
I created two versions as the first created using Dipity is ad supported ($99p/m to get rid of them!), the second was using timetoast which is not ad supported and loads quicker, isn't as visually interesting.

Olympic Stadium on Dipity.