December 2008

Some new graphs

This weekend I’ve added two new types of graph to the site, to help visualise some information. One shows Pepys’ increasing wealth during the diary period and the other shows how often an Encyclopedia topic has been referenced in the diary.

Here’s the first one:

There’s more information about it on a new Encyclopedia page for Pepys’ wealth. The graph will update automatically when Pepys mentions his current financial status (although it may lag by an hour or so due to caching).

The second type of graph can be seen on the ‘References’ tab of every Encyclopedia topic, eg here or here. Here are those two examples, the first for Sir Edward Mountagu, the second for the Plague:

Of course, many topics will have very few bars showing on their charts but for some it’s quite a handy perspective on their waxing and waning importance in Pepys’ life. If a bar reaches the very top of the graph that shows the topic has been mentioned every single day that month.

Again, these graphs will update whenever the topic is mentioned, although I’ve been a bit cautious with the caching and these may be a few hours out of date.

Do let me know if you have any thoughts on improving these, or ideas for any other information you’d like to see in some kind of graph format.

5 comments | Permalink | Sunday 21 December 2008 | New features

Links to Evelyn/Pepys letters

Just a quick one… I recently added links next to diary entries when there was a letter written between John Evelyn and Pepys. The links take you to the text of the letter at this site. You can see examples on the entries for 9th or 13th December 1665.

(I realise Terry has been doing a fine job posting the letters in the relevant annotations, but we thought it would be good to have the links too, particularly as some forthcoming letters are rather long.)

1 comment | Permalink | Wednesday 31 December 2008 | New features