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

[Christian Villum]

Great stuff Niclas! Would you be up for copy/pasting this into a little
blog post on OKFN-DK blog? I can set you up with an account.

Also great to have the github repo up and running, I've done a little shout
out:
https://twitter.com/okfnDK/status/459265864798601216

-Christian


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Niclas Darville
<niclasdarville at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> okfn-dk mailing list
> okfn-dk at lists.okfn.org
> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-dk
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-dk/attachments/20140424/4650fe5c/attachment-0003.html>