{"id":11485,"date":"2011-04-06T14:38:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T13:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11485"},"modified":"2011-04-06T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T13:41:37","slug":"a-history-of-the-world-in-100-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/04\/06\/a-history-of-the-world-in-100-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of the World in 100 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11487\" title=\"A History of the World in 100 Seconds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/A-History-of-the-World-in-100-Seconds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Data from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikipedia<\/a> has been used in a video to visualise <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_world\">global historical events<\/a> over 2,500 years.<\/p>\n<p>It begins in 499 BC, when people in Europe started to record events, then goes to Asia and after 1492 the Americas light up as the image of the modern world begins to form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/godawful\">Gareth Lloyd<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/heychinaski\">Tom Martin<\/a> used geotagged articles from Wikipedia with references to 14,238 historical events and this is the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/19088241?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=80ceff\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On his Vimeo page Gareth <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/19088241\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many wikipedia articles have coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Me (@godawful) and Tom Martin (@heychinaski) cross referenced the two to create a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia&#8217;s view of world history. Watch as empires fall, wars break out and continents are discovered.<\/p>\n<p>This won &#8220;Best Visualization&#8221; at Matt Patterson&#8217;s History Hackday in January, 2011. To make it, we parsed an xml dump of all wikipedia articles (30Gb) and pulled out 424,000 articles with coordinates and 35,000 references to events. Cross referencing these produced 15,500 events with locations. Then we mapped them over time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user5817916\">Gareth Lloyd at Vimeo<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"www.ragtag.info\/\u200b2011\/\u200bfeb\/\u200b2\/\u200bhistory-world-100-seconds\">More information on the data<\/a>\u200b<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_world\">The History of the World<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from Wikipedia has been used in a video to visualise global historical events over 2,500 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,40],"tags":[1835,1972],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}