Do you ever find yourself doing research on a person where you have a name and a lot of biographical information, but no real direction for searching? Biography Buckets is for you. Biography Buckets takes biographical events or keywords associated with a person and uses them to build date-based searches…
When you want the official Facebook account or the LinkedIn for a famous person, what do you do? A quick Web search? It’s either that, ask a friend, or try to guess. But there are other places that have that kind of information too, like Wikipedia. And if you’re looking…
Wiki Bunch lets you group Wikipedia category members by Age, Education, Gender, and Place of Birth Enter a category, either by pasting in the whole URL as in the dictionary, or putting in just the category name. (It’s pretty tolerant.) Then use the dropdown menu to choose what property you…
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…