[Okfn-dk] Recap of last night’s patent workshop—and an easy tool for making map charts

Thu Apr 24 09:34:04 UTC 2014

Hey, all—I’m doing this in English to make sure everyone’s included,

We had a lot of fun last night working on some patent data; using our
new GitHub
organization <https://github.com/ok-dk>, we dedicated a
repository<https://github.com/ok-dk/patents>to the patent workshop,
which resulted in a swanky map
chart<https://github.com/ok-dk/patents/tree/master/patent-verdenskort/visualization>of
the patents approved worldwide as well as a
wiki <https://github.com/ok-dk/patents/wiki> (in Danish) with all kinds of
juicy information and instruction for retrieving it.

I used d3.js for the linked chart, but there is another tool available that
I couldn’t remember the name of yesterday. Today I remembered that the name
is Magic Maps <http://magicmaps.evanmiller.org/>, which is an awesome tool
by the inimitable statistician extraordinaire Evan Miller. It’s only
available for Mac, but if you have a Mac, I would definitely check it out
to get your feet wet mapping data. Check the
gallery<http://magicmaps.evanmiller.org/gallery.html>for a video
introduction.

Let’s try to get a community going in the GitHub organization,
Niclas
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