From 776f7a2254cfbac7bcfc4f93528121574a7b2739 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Karner Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 08:16:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add README.md --- README.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..29eb82d --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Wanna take a look at the colors in our historic postcards? +Thanks to Laura Wrubel from the George Washington University Libraries in Washington DC, now you can! + +We took [her code](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/LibraryOfCongress/data-exploration/blob/master/Dominant%20colors.ipynb), +adapted it to use [our postcards](https://labs.onb.ac.at/en/dataset/akon/) as a data source, +tweaked the computation algorithm a little, +and the results can be seen on [https://labs.onb.ac.at/en/topic/akon-swatches/](https://labs.onb.ac.at/en/topic/akon-swatches/). + +Here, you find the two Jupyter Notebooks we used to tweak the algorithm, +a Python script to actually compute the color data (this takes us about 4 hours), +and a `requirements.txt` for your own Python virtual environment. \ No newline at end of file -- GitLab