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Re: Show HN: PaleoCodex, a prehistoric species catalog (using wikipedia data)

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Post by mohaps »

I built PaleoCodex as an online interactive encyclopedia for Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals for my six year old using wikipedia data.

He is a big dinosaur buff and wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up. His project brief was "Build a pokedex... but for dinosaurs"

Still kind of a WIP (Search is very basic and Text to speech / Listen feature may not work on iPhones, works on iPad/Nexus and Desktop using Chrome and Safari) and very much a weekend hack.

Built using python, tornado, wikipedia data and the skeleton html5 boilerplate. Uses ResponsiveSpeech for text to speech.

Enjoy! (and do send in your comments and suggestions)

Re: Show HN: PaleoCodex, a prehistoric species catalog (using wikipedia data)

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Post by xaedes »

mohaps wrote: post #2

I built PaleoCodex as an online interactive encyclopedia for Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals for my six year old using wikipedia data. He is a big dinosaur buff and wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up. His project brief was "Build a pokedex... but for dinosaurs" Still kind of a WIP (Search is very basic and Text to speech / Listen feature may not work on iPhones, works on iPad/Nexus and Desktop usin…

Pretty fast page load time. That is really nice when clicking through the entries. A timeline or browsing by time categories would be interesting.

Re: Show HN: PaleoCodex, a prehistoric species catalog (using wikipedia data)

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Post by mohaps »

xaedes wrote: post #3
mohaps wrote: post #2

I built PaleoCodex as an online interactive encyclopedia for Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals for my six year old using wikipedia data. He is a big dinosaur buff and wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up. His project brief was "Build a pokedex... but for dinosaurs" Still kind of a WIP (Search is very basic and Text to speech / Listen feature may not work on iPhones, works on iPad/Nexus and Desktop usin…

Pretty fast page load time. That is really nice when clicking through the entries. A timeline or browsing by time categories would be interesting.

Thanks! Working on the timeline feature. The temporal data and diet/size tags need some clean up - a tedious work via an offline tool with RegEx and some nltk elbow grease :)

Re: Show HN: PaleoCodex, a prehistoric species catalog (using wikipedia data)

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Post by xaedes »

mohaps wrote: post #4
xaedes wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty fast page load time. That is really nice when clicking through the entries. A timeline or browsing by time categories would be interesting.

Thanks! Working on the timeline feature. The temporal data and diet/size tags need some clean up - a tedious work via an offline tool with RegEx and some nltk elbow grease :)

When clicking through I wondered how much pages that would be printed in book form (I like printed text). I think one can make it look really great. Especially as the data is heavily structured already.
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