A Javascript Bible Passage Reference Parser
Browse the Github repository of a new Bible-reference parser written in Coffeescript / Javascript (it understands text like “John 3:16″), try a demo, or review the annotated source. You can use the...
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The Topical Index and the Living Index
The New York Times writes about the first-ever topical index for the Talmud. It looks like a topical Bible and contains 6,600 topics and 27,000 subtopics. (For comparison, Nave’s Topical Bible contains...
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Re-visualizing Cross References (Interactively)
Browse this grid interactively. This visualization is arranged by book, showing cross-reference sources on the y-axis and targets on the x-axis. Within each square, the first verse in the book or...
View ArticleTrack What People Are Giving Up for Lent in Real Time
See the top 100 things people are giving up for Lent on Twitter, continually updated for the next few days. Look for the usual post-mortem later this week.
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What Twitterers Are Giving up for Lent (2012 Edition)
This year, Twitter continues to take top honors. Facebook drops a few places compared to last year–has it become less-central to people’s lives? This year’s hot new site, Pinterest, almost makes the...
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Bible Verses for the Pinterest Set
Jonathan Ogden runs Typographic Verses, a collection of about seventy-five Pinterest-friendly Bible verses designed as posters. Here are three of my favorites: Also see Jim LePage’s Illustrations of...
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Rise of the Robosermon
In a recent issue of Wired, Steven Levy writes about Narrative Science, a company that uses data to write automated news stories. Right now, they mostly deal in data-intensive fields like sports and...
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Calculating the Time and Cost of Paul’s Missionary Journeys
Stanford University recently unveiled ORBIS, a site that lets you calculate the time and cost required to travel by road or ship around the Roman world in A.D. 200. It takes into account a lot of...
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Zoomable Map of the Greco-Roman World
The Pelagios Project has produced a lovely zoomable map of the Greco-Roman world. Below, for example, is a static view of Israel during the Roman period. A blog post about the map discusses how they...
View ArticleBible Reference Parser Code Update
The semiannual release schedule of the Javascript Bible Passage Reference Parser continues. This release: Improves support for parentheses. Adds some alternate versification systems. Supports French...
View ArticleStreet View through Israel
Google yesterday announced that they’ve expanded their street view functionality throughout Israel, including a number of sites that you’d visit on any tour of the Holy Lands. Of particular note are...
View ArticleTrack What People Are Giving Up in 2013 for Lent in Real Time
See the top 100 things people are giving up in 2013 for Lent on Twitter, continually updated until February 15, 2013. As I write this post, with about 5,000 tweets analyzed, the new hot topics so far...
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What Twitterers Are Giving up for Lent (2013 Edition)
This year saw a lot of churn in the top 100 things people were giving up for Lent. The pope announced his resignation on Monday, leading many to say that he was giving up “being pope” for Lent. It...
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How to Train Your Franken-Bible
This is the outline of a talk that I gave earlier today at the BibleTech 2013 conference. There are two parts to this talk Inevitability of algorithmic translations. An algorithmic translation (or...
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Religious Interest among Facebook Users
I have a post on the Bible Gateway blog that briefly looks at how religious interest among Facebook users varies with age. In particular, eighteen-year-old women appear to have an especially strong...
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So You Want to Write a Kids’ Bible
Let’s say you want to write a children’s Bible. When the time arrives to collect the stories you want to include, you need to choose which of the hundreds of tales in the Bible will make the cut. You...
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Christmas Timeline Visualization
Over at the Bible Gateway Blog, I have a post discussing the above Christmas Timeline Visualization, which uses the same xkcd-inspired format as the Holy Week Timeline from 2011. Sequencing the events...
View ArticleTrack What People Are Giving Up in 2014 for Lent in Real Time
See the top 100 things people are giving up in 2014 for Lent on Twitter, continually updated until March 7, 2014. As I write this post, with about 5,000 tweets analyzed, the new hot topics so far this...
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“Hacking the Bible” in Christianity Today
This month’s Christianity Today cover story, The Bible in the Original Geek, talks about how programmers are using technology to change how we read, study, and interpret the Bible. If you’re...
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What Twitterers Are Giving up for Lent (2014 Edition)
This year, “School” topped the list of things Twitterers are giving up for Lent, up 44 places from last year. Remaining in the top ten from last year are Swearing, Alcohol, Soda, Social Networking,...
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