Jeni's Musings

I wrote previously about a visualisation using Home Office data to navigate around categories of offences. The second interesting set of data from the Home Office that I found, tucked away in a small link on a page about Crime Reduction Toolkits was a spreadsheet of recorded crime statistics between 1898 and the present day. Each column is a different category of offence (I won’t say class because they don’t map onto the Classes from the spreadsheet of notifiable offences).

This time I wanted to try out the jQuery sparklines plug-in to illustrate how crime notifications have changed over time. The resulting page is available at http://www.jenitennison.com/visualisation/crime.html; here’s a screenshot for Bigamy:

Earlier this week I presented at SWIG-UK about rdfQuery. rdfQuery is a set of plugins that I’ve developed for jQuery in order to support RDFa parsing, querying and generation. There are a bunch of other Javascript libraries for RDFa around, such as Mark Birbeck’s Ubiquity RDFa and Ben Adida’s RDFa library. What I’ve really tried to do with rdfQuery is tie it in with the “Write Less, Do More” philosophy of jQuery and provide a neat, elegant API. At least that’s the aim!