Wiggleback

Wiggle Back shows the history of a day. It searches back to find what happened on a specific day over a range of years. Freebase is loaded with interesting dates. So for any day you'll see birthdays, film releases, music releases, maiden flights, and topics related to most domains. A side panel provides links to filter results for domains, types, or properties. Filters are based on the content of results. Results can be sorted by rank, year, o... More

Wiggle Back shows the history of a day. It searches back to find what happened on a specific day over a range of years. Freebase is loaded with interesting dates. So for any day you'll see birthdays, film releases, music releases, maiden flights, and topics related to most domains. A side panel provides links to filter results for domains, types, or properties. Filters are based on the content of results. Results can be sorted by rank, year, or name. Let me know if you have requests, jack.alves@gmail.com How Wiggle Back works: Wiggleback uses a Python script to search Freebase for any property with an expected type of date. Results for each day are reformatted and stored in a file. The rank is just the number of types for a topic plus one if the topic has image or article. When a request is made the Javascript app calls a PHP script to read and filter results.

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