Category Archives: Maps

Lecture: Geographic Information Systems as a support to public administration history studies

A lecture at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sassari, Sardinia, invited by Professor Francesco Soddu. The presentation was summarizing various independent research projects conducted between 1999 and 2003 concerning geographic text mining, and related work.
I also wish to thank Daniele Sanna for supporting this initiative.

For more information: see the “Maps” section at pibinko.org

CORDIS (European reasearch) database mining

In 2004 I did some mining of the CORDIS web site (with all the information on EU-funded research), for example by mapping the number of projects by country. I do not have at hand the source data I scraped, and it is not immediate to re-construct the colour scale, but this is a sample output: