Did you already know that the 4th of August is International Owl Awareness Day? Me neither until idle browsing on cute owl memes led me to this website. Then, as we recently found a beautiful owl family in our garden, I assumed I’d check them out on Wikipedia — and was stunned to see that there are 254 owl species recorded on Wiki, our favourite free open-access knowledge source. The one logical next step was to show this into a knowledge visualization to higher understand the international owl landscape.
Namely, I’ll robotically download the total list of owl species after which their Wikipedia profiles. Then, I’ll use text matching and the NetworkX graph analytics library to extract the similarity network of the owl species, which I’ll then visualize. This fashion, we may have a visible representation of the owl species, which makes it much easier to interpret the connection between different species.
Moreover, while the subject owl is timely here, the methods and steps are easily adaptable to some other topic we would love to cover and switch right into a knowledge graph counting on the publicly available Wikipedia database.
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