‘Kindred Britain’ maps 30,000 people in British history A fantastic new visualisation work has been released today titled ‘Kindred Britain‘. Created by Nicholas Jenkins and Elijah Meeks of Stanford University in partnership with Scott Murray (amongst others) the project offers a deep, exploratory interface into a network of nearly 30,000 key figures in British culture connected through ‘family relationships of blood, marriage, or affiliation’. As the designers describe, ‘it is a vision of the nation’s history as a giant family affair’. http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2013/08/kindred-britain-maps-30000-people-in-british-history/ http://kindred.stanford.edu/# This seems akin to the need I feel for an event-based genealogy, history and biography program, described here: http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com/2011/05/event-based-history-and-genealogy.html -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/

Steve Hayes wrote:     > ‘Kindred Britain’ maps 30,000 people in British history > A fantastic new visualisation work has been released today titled ‘Kindred > Britain‘. Created by Nicholas Jenkins and Elijah Meeks of Stanford University > in partnership with Scott Murray (amongst others) the project offers a deep, > exploratory interface into a network of nearly 30,000 key figures in British > culture connected through ‘family relationships of blood, marriage, or > affiliation’. As the designers describe, ‘it is a vision of the nation’s > history as a giant family affair’. > http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2013/08/kindred-britain-maps-30000-people-in-british-history/ > http://kindred.stanford.edu/#     <snip>         Thanks for posting this, Steve. It looks very interesting, if slightly incomprehensible at first glance.       Chris