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New Post: PEN America Banned Books 2025 dataset
thisismattmiller.com/post/book-ba...

Looking at school district book bans

- Interactive Map interface to the books banned in 2024-2025
- A faceted browse interface to the 3700 books
- Subject heading analysis
Shows a county map of the united states the counties with school districts with banned books are highlighted red. A screenshot of a the banned book browser interface showing rows of book covers.
October 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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If you need me I’ll be in…
Photograph of kraftwerk performing at Coachella the screen reads COMPUTERWORLD
April 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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I wrote a bit about turning triples into pie charts.
A screenshot of https://semlab.io/property-explorer/ its of two pie charts connected by a line it shows what percentage of entities are connected via the "collaborated with" property in our Wikibase database.
March 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Less Gemini AI in my gmail and more fixing the broken Bus Stop theme that I've used for the last 15+ years
screen shot of the theme selection in gmail with bus stop theme selected and the theme not being applied in the background
February 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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"How to tell the birds from the flowers and other wood-cuts." 1929 public domain book.
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=co...
found via
thisismattmiller.github.io/hathi-pd-202...
wood block print of of a clover plant and a plover bird, they looks the same. wood block print of a kale plant and a quail bird, they looks the same. Wood block print of a carrot and a parrot bird, they looks the same. Wood block print of a hen bird and a piece of lichen, they looks the same.
February 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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preparing for department of ed shutdown potentiality, downloading all my info, and just looking at my pslf dashboard... "he was just three days from retirement"...almost made it :(
screen shot of my public service loan forgiveness payment counts showing i only need to make 3 more payments for my obligation to be finished :(
February 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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BEANS!
A photograph of a card catalog with the center drawer label simply saying the work Beans
January 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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With tiktok probably shutting down I made some scripts to download and build a local web interface for your TikTok liked and favorited videos:

github.com/thisismattmi...

I had 2200 videos, takes up about 20GB. Here is a video of the interface:
January 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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visiting fellow library employees today
December 30, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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Lights over the Supreme Court earlier this evening in DC.
Photo of the Supreme Court in Washington DC with a purple pink aurora borealis above
October 11, 2024 at 5:18 AM
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If you have +11 million names, like in the LC Name Authority File, how many of them anagram to each other?

A lot: thisismattmiller.com/post/lcnaf-a...
A list of LC NAF Names that all anagram to each other, screenshot from the website linked: Kley, Mortin, 1975- Klein, Marty Markle, Tiny Lantry, Mike Martin, Kyle
April 1, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Browse 1928 books in HathiTrust that entered the public domain this week by popularity.
I made a couple interfaces that allow you browse and explore by Library of Congress Classification:

thisismattmiller.github.io/hathi-pd-2024/
Screen shot of the browse by popularity interface Screen shot of the browse by LCC interface
January 3, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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new account welcome to my page
A sign that says trash, but the H looks like two t’s
July 18, 2023 at 7:15 PM