“Exploring human knowledge through Wikipedia usage” is an unbiased data visualization app, that can be used to observe Wikipedia user search trends. It is part of the EPFL course "Data Visualization".
You can see our visualization in action, in the following URL: https://ividim.github.io/DataViz/
- assets: Contains the front-end part of the application.
- data: Contains standalone data files that are used by the app.
- server: Contains the back-end part of the application.
- vendor: Contains external Javascript libraries, used in the front-end part of the app.
Hyun Jii Cho, Ivi Dimopoulou, Kirusanth Poopalasingam
Download the "pagecounts-{}-{}-views-ge-5.bz2" files from : https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/
This command will unzip the file and remove the original file
bzip2 -d pagecounts-2016-10-views-ge-5.bz2
This command get english articles and write it in a separate file
grep '^en.z' pagecounts-2016-10-views-ge-5 > pagecounts-2016-10-views-ge-5-cleaned
Execute the wiki/run.py which will keep only articles with certain amount of views and write them in a separate file.
python run.py