Just found a cool website. It displays MIT-related Nobel prize winners.
It is cool not because it shows something about MIT. It actually implemented the website with javascript to generate the figures from a text file. The format of the text file is like this:
{ type : "Nobelist",
label : "Elias J. Corey Jr.",
discipline : "Chemistry",
shared : "no",
"last-name" : "Corey",
"nobel-year" : "1990",
relationship : "alumni",
"relationship-detail" : "MIT S.B. 1948, Ph.D. 1951",
imageURL : "http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1990/corey_thumb.jpg"
},
{ type : "Nobelist",
label : "Horst L. Stu00F6rmer",
discipline : "Physics",
shared : "yes",
"last-name" : "Stu00F6rmer",
"nobel-year" : "1998",
relationship : "research",
"co-winner" : [
"Robert B. Laughlin",
"Daniel C. Tsui"
],
"relationship-detail" : "MIT researcher at MIT Magnet Lab",
imageURL : "http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1998/stormer_thumb.jpg"
},
{ type : "Nobelist",
label : "Edward M. Purcell",
discipline : "Physics",
shared : "yes",
"last-name" : "Purcell",
"nobel-year" : "1952",
relationship : "research",
"deceased" : "yes",
"relationship-detail" : "Staff, MIT Radiation Laboratory WWII (deceased)",
imageURL : "http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1952/purcell_thumb.jpg"
},
{ type : "Nobelist",
label : "Phillip A. Sharp",
discipline : "Medicine/Physiology",
shared : "yes",
"last-name" : "Sharp",
"nobel-year" : "1993",
relationship : "professor",
"relationship-detail" : "MIT Institute Professor, Biology",
imageURL : "http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1993/sharp_thumb.jpg"
},
Anyone familiar with XML, CSS or BibTex should feel very comfortable with this.
I like this website because it truely separates the data and the representation, making it very easy to modify the layout or the data separately.
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