Tim Hitchcock,

1. Big Data for Dead People.
Tim Hitchcock
University of Hertfordshire

2. www.oldbaileyonline.org

3. www.londonlives.org

4. www.connectedhistories.org

5. Locating London’s Past

6. Curated Digital Resources
API
Commercial and
Paywall Resources
Tools and Visualisations
Research Spaces
Publishing Spaces
Up-to-date GUIs
Connected
Histories
Indexes
API
API
API Independent APIs
V&A, Tate, BM
Data re-used, new-used and linked

7. Distribution of trial lengths in words for ‘killing’ displayed in red; all other trials in grey.
‘Killing’ includes all trials tagged as including the offences of, ‘Infanticide’, ‘murder’, ‘petty
treason’, ‘manslaughter’, and ‘killing: other’, by the Old Bailey online.

8. Distribution of trial lengths in words for ‘killing’ displayed in red; all other trials in grey. ‘Killing’
includes all trials tagged as including the offences of, ‘Infanticide’, ‘murder’, ‘petty treason’,
‘manslaughter’, and ‘killing: other’, by the Old Bailey online.

11. An extract of the buffered and trimmed polygons –
Locating London’s Past. www.locatinglondon.org

12. ‘horse’, ‘mare’ and ‘gelding’ from the Old Bailey, mapped by ‘street’.

13. The geographical distribution of colours
in the Old Bailey – In small blocks

14. Katy Börner, Plug-and-Play Macroscopes
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 54 No. 3, Pages 60-69
10.1145/1897852.1897871

17. Some of the web sites illustrated along the way:
Discontents (Tim Sherratt’s blog): http://discontents.com.au/
Datamining with Criminal Intent: http://criminalintent.org/
Locating London’s Past: http://www.locatinglondon.org/
Old Bailey Online: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org
London Lives: http://www.londonlives.org/
Connected Histories: http://www.connectedhistories.org