It’s October, the month when all the world is ooky spooky. Why should Wikipedia miss out on the fun? Wikiween takes the Wikipedia category you specify and checks to see if the people within it are alive or dead. If they are dead they get a little headstone in the…
As the volume of scholarship posted on the Internet increases by the day, it gets more difficult to find information about a subject that’s contemporary to them. Yes, research on Louisa May Alcott is extensive and important. But what were newspapers saying about her in 1854? The Contemporary Biography Builder…
Discover the untold stories of people, places, and things with Gossip Machine, a powerful tool that uses Wikipedia page views to surface potential “news days” in a given year for any topic with a Wikipedia page. By analyzing daily page views and flagging dates with significantly higher-than-average views, Gossip Machine…
Senator Social Slices allows you to explore the Twitter-Space of the members of the current US Senate. You can filter the accounts searched by birth decade/generation, zodiac sign, gender, political party, percentage of votes missed, and percentage of time that senator voted against their party. OR, you can ignore all…
Carl is a longtime Patreon, and I really appreciate him! Recently we’ve been trading emails about doing name-based searches. I was thinking about how he could get some name variation searching done when I wondered if this was a job for JavaScript. And it apparently is! Carl’s Name Net takes…