08.03.06
Orange Hall Attacks - Timeline
The MIT software development group Simile have created several interesting semantic web applications of which their Timeline javascript application recently caught my eye. I am very interested in alternate representations of data that yield a more holistic overview allowing the detection of patterns and relationships that are not easily visualised in flat text tables and the various bar/pie charts that hithertofore have been the gold standard. I want to be able to navigate the data in a manner akin to a mini-interweb, observe the types and nature of the relationships between related and disparate data sets but I get way ahead of myself.
Of course, one really needs sets of data to get realise this goal and boy is garnering that data tedious - as illustrated by the abandonment of my CDDB project soon after code completion.
Thankfully there are many people out there generating datasets of interest and making them available. One of those is a list of Orange Hall attacks during the course of The Troubles that Fair Deal a blogger from Slugger O’Toole has compiled. I have taken this database and ported it to Simile’s Timeline application Timeline of Orange Hall attacks.