Dave Pattern's blog
Despite a widespread network failure that seemed to affect quite a few universities, I finally managed to pick up all of the #cilip2 tweets from today's event: http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/cilip2.html
Whenever I get a spare half-an-hour, I'll do some analysis of the tweets. If anyone want a tab separated version of the data, you can grab it [...]
Aaron's cool Wordle visualisations prompted me to have a look at our ever growing log of OPAC keyword searches (see this blog post from 2006). We've been collecting the keyword searches for just over 2.5 years and, sometime within the last 7 days, the 3 millionth entry was logged.
Not that I ever need an [...]
After killing off Hot Stuff due to a server upgrade, I find that I'm kinda missing it!
So, I've decided to have a second stab at the problem and this time the code is much cleaner and faster. In particular, I'm using Bloglines to handle fetching all of the feeds and then grabbing the new [...]
I've been meaning to have a stab at creating something similar to a friend wheel, but using library data, for a while now. Here's a prototype which uses our "people who borrowed this, also borrowed…" data to try find strong borrowing relationships…
I picked three random Dewey numbers and hacked together a quick PerlMagick script [...]
Following on from the book covers arranged by hue/lightness, I've been playing around with the 1000 Frames of Hitchcock thumbnails.
Here's the result of 15 minutes of coding and 2 hours of rendering using a single frame from the famous shower scene in Psycho…
To see the individual frames, you really need to view the full sized [...]
I've been fascinated by data visualisation for a year or two now, and I've recently been chatting to my good friend Iman about doing something with our circulation data. In particular, something that will be visually interesting to look at, whilst also giving you a feel for the data.
I've tried a few different things, [...]
Kudos if you automatically sang to yourself "…see how fast the bastard turns"
If you've no idea what I'm on about, then YouTube is your friend.
Anyway, I got to playing around with the OPAC keyword cloud data and ImageMagick and came up with this (reload that web page to get a new image)…
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