Tag: Arts and culture
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Painted places: where landscape painters painted, and how far from home they went
I mapped 8,533 landscape, marine and city paintings from Wikidata and the 4,740 places they show. The most painted place is a river, the Seine, and half the paintings were made more than 231 km from the painter’s birthplace.
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Where novels are set: a map of fiction’s real places
I mapped the real settings of 7,300 novels in Wikidata. London, New York and Paris dominate, most authors stay within a few hundred kilometres of where they were born, and Denmark has more mapped places than China and India together.
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The history of AI, stitched like the Bayeux Tapestry
From Ada Lovelace to AI agents in 35 embroidered scenes: Turing’s curtain, two winters, a comet called attention, Will Smith eating spaghetti, glue on pizza, a king in a leather jacket and the band that was nobody. Scroll it sideways; every scene is sourced.
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Where games are set, and where they are made
A world map of 6,691 video games tied to real places: where each is set and where its studio is based. New York leads, Japan to the United States is the busiest route, and the Moon beats Mars.
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Rings in the Rock
4,584 carved rocks and one shared sign. A data history of cup-and-ring carvings on Europe’s Atlantic edge: when they were made, where they are, the maths of a ring, and what the ancient DNA says about who carved them.
