hadro / smithsonian_data_fun

Smithsonian Data Fun

I futzed with the code that Matt Miller developed, and all I got was this dumb word cloud.

What I did was:

• run Matt's code to parse the 11M Smithsonian open metadata records
• extracted all the names found in all the records using pandas (but jq is also super fun and useful to use with the output of Matt's scripts)
• then I used Matt's fanart drawing of the right tower of the Smithsonian Castle as an image mask for a word cloud
• then I made a static IIIF representation of that image
• then I added it to Github and then I tweeted about it, and that's how we got here.

But seriously, here are some fun links of Matt's work and others that I was able to sew together in a few hours to fun effect:

• The Smithsonian Open Access release that started it all
• Matt's Tweet about his data analysis and data viz efforts that started it all more specifically
• Matt's blog post about his process and viz examples, also including fun easter eggs at the bottom which is where I got the fanart image of the Smithsonian Castle
• The Python wordcloud library I used
• The static IIIF tile generator I used
• My wordcloud as IIIF