Matt Miller

✦ Newest

• 2025-11-25 - Email Visualization - Visualizing 14,000 Released Epstein Emails
• 2025-11-12 - LCNAF + Trie - Storing +11M unique LCNAF names in a 50MB trie data structure
• 2025-10-31 - Giallo - Using a vision language model to analyze Italian Giallo films
• 2025-10-17 - Book Bans 2025 - Analysis of PEN America Book Ban Data 2025
• 2025-10-06 - Library of Congress & Flickr Commons - Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images

✯Data visualization

• Email Visualization

  2025-11-25

  Visualizing 14,000 Released Epstein Emails

  Blog
  Viz
  
• Hathi Trust Public Domain Viz

  2023-01-01

  Browse new resources entering the public domain in Hathi Trust

  1928 (2024)
  1927 (2023)
  1926 (2022)
  1925 (2021)
  
• Leeks: ParkMobile

  2021-06-09

  Using the ParkMobile data leak to explore what nick names people give their cars

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• Party Platforms

  2020-08-27

  A look at new words found in the Democratic and Republican party platforms

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• LCC Tree Map

  2020-07-29

  A Library of Congress Classification Tree Map for LC, Harvard and Columbia.

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• Library of Congress Web Archive

  2020-03-23

  Viewing all 21K LC archived web pages at once

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• Vectorizing the DPLA

  2017-12-19

  Using the DPLA metadata records as a source I vectorized their records to see if records aggregate based on textual features regardless of the metadata content.

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• List of all books @ Library of Congress

  2017-05-22

  A large list of all the books at the Library of Congress

  Blog
  View List
  
• RFC — Visualizing Internet History

  2017-04-20

  Visualizing the entire corpus the the RFC (Request for Comment) archive

  Blog
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• Knight Challenge Elections

  2015-03-24

  Analysis of the submissions to a Knight Foundation challenge

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  Coverage
  
• LinkedJazz Tulane

  2015-02-15

  Prototype network viz for tulane contentDM metadata to RDF

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• Knight Challenge Libraries

  2014-10-16

  Analysis of the submissions to a Knight Foundation challenge

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  Coverage
  
• The Networked Catalog

  2014-07-05

  Rendering the entire NYPL catalog as a subject network graph.

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  View Network
  
• All of NYPL's finding aids printed out

  2014-02-03

  Large print visualisation of all of NYPL’s finding aids (10K). Going away present.

  Picture
  
• NYPL Network Renderings

  2013-10-13

  Timelapse network renderings of NYPL’s catalog.

  Video
  
• 1001 NYPL Finding Aids

  2013-08-29

  Proof of concept to render 1001 NYPL finding aids as one document.

  Viz
  
• Moretti-izer: Geometric Literature

  2012-09-01

  An old experiment with Franco Moretti's idea

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• Linked Jazz Network

  2012-06-01

  A network visualization of the relationships of jazz musicians based on historical oral history transcripts converted to linked data.

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✰Creative Coding

• Giallo

  2025-10-31

  Using a vision language model to analyze Italian Giallo films

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• Building datasets from video collections using local & cloud LLMs

  2025-07-30

  Using Qwen2.5-VL, Gemini 2.5 and Whisper to build a Siskel and Ebert dataset

  Blog
  
• Migrating Glitch

  2025-07-23

  Glitch.com closed down, so we must migrate, my experince and How-to

  Blog
  
• LCNAF Anagrams

  2024-04-01

  If you have +11 million names, like in the LC Name Authority File, how many of them anagram to each other?

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• Ley Lines

  2022-01-17

  Drawing lines between things, mondern ley lines.

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• Wordle Shares

  2022-01-09

  Collecting Wordle Shares on Twitter - Dead Project, Twitter Takeover + Glitch Ending

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  Context
  
• Jan 6th Overflow

  2022-01-06

  Livestream comment simulation

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• Endless Hallway of 2007 GIFs

  2021-12-01

  Wander down a hallway of 12,000 animated gifs from 2007

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• Every Arbys Twitter Bot

  2021-06-15

  Order some curly fries for me

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• Between The Places

  2020-12-22

  Inspired by Sol LeWitt, make a map cutting out the places you used to live

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  Context
  
• ISBN Uh-Oh

  2020-12-06

  A twitter bot posting ISBN collisions

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  Blog
  
• Sun

  2020-07-04

  What did the sun look like on your birthday?

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• Maya Lin's Eclipsed Time

  2020-04-12

  A simulation Eclipsed Time in the age of Covid-19

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  Blog
  
• 6 Hour PowerPoint

  2020-02-18

  I put 1000 government PowerPoint presentations together

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  Context
  
• Rodin's Gates of Hell

  2019-09-26

  There are two Gates of Hell sculptures on the east and west coast of America

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• Anaphora - political speech

  2019-05-20

  Exploring repeated phrases in government audio from Library of Congress web archives.

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  Blog
  
• Zork

  2019-04-20

  Extracted elements from the text adventure game Zork

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  Context
  
• Byzantine

  2019-03-20

  A little toy to make Frankenstein PDFs from government sources.

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  Context
  
• Warhol Repetition

  2018-10-27

  Extracting the frames in between serial photograph using computer vision stuff.

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• Portals to change - DPLA doors

  2018-06-02

  Portals to change

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  Context
  
• I trained a neural net on...

  2018-06-02

  Dumb neural net thing, I was sick of seeing people posting the things they are training

  Output
  Context
  
• Effect Bath - BBC Sound Twitterbot

  2018-05-23

  A mashup bot using the BBC sound effect library

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  Visit
  How it was made
  
• Little LC List Twitterbot

  2018-03-18

  Little lists of similar sounding books at Library of Congress

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  Visit
  
• Generative Tropical Cyclones Drawings

  2017-9-9

  Randomly drawing the path of historical storms

  Blog
  View
  
• Public Domain Cut-up Twitter Bot

  2017-02-10

  Twitter bot mashing up public domain images

  Blog
  Visit (banned)
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• Paint by MARC (numbers)

  2016-04-20

  Paint a picture by MARC record numbers

  Blog
  View
  
• Code4Lib Markov Chain

  2016-04-01

  A Markov chain toy using presentations delivered at Code4Lib 2016

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• Authority Birthdays

  2016-03-26

  What authorities were created on your birthday

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• Emoji Field

  2015-06-01

  When you get heatstroke walking home from trader joes and think about windows screen savers but with emojis.

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❂Digital Humanities

• Repotting old DH projects

  2020-01-31

  Blog post about sunsetting old projects

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• DADAlytics: Sélavy

  2019-10-01

  A tool that organizes the output of the NER service and helps convert documents into RDF triples

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• DADAlytics: NER Service

  2018-01-01

  A tool that combines multiple NER tools into one service

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  Info
  
• DADAlytics

  2017-06-01

  A IMLS grant to build tools to aid in entitiy extraction

  Visit
  
• PADB Fluxus history Site

  2013-04-20

  A site to organize co-occurrence of performance artists. Specifically for the Fluxus movement. Support site for my MA in History of Art and Design from Pratt Institute

  padb.net
  
• Linked Jazz 52nd St

  2013-01-01

  Crowdsourcing tool to map the relationships between jazz musicians

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※Teaching / Research

• Programing for Cultural Heritage

  2020-06-01

  I taught data + python to library students at Pratt Institute for 6 years as an adjunct. Checkout the class projects.

  Site
  
• Semlab

  2018-01-01

  I am co-director of the Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute

  Site
  
• Harvard LIL Fellowship 

  2017-06-09

  I was a 2017 summer fellow at Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab. I worked on Case Law and linked data

  Part 1
  Part 2
  Part 3
  Part 4
  Part 5
  
• LOD Summer School @ University of Bologna

  2016-05-15

  For a few years I co-taught a Linked Data summer school at the University of Bologna in Ravenna Italy.

  School Page (2016, 2017 and 2018)
  
• Linked Jazz

  2015-01-01

  A linked data digital humanities project to map the relationships of jazz musicians via oral history transcripts.

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• MA History of Art Deisgn Thesis

  2013-04-20

  My master’s thesis for my MA in History of Art and Design from Pratt Institute. Using network analysis I looked at the Fluxus community and its development 1960-1969.

  Thesis Document
  Network Renders
  
• SILS Practicum

  2011-06-01

  My Practicum for my Masters Information Library Science (MILS) degree

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〠Drawing

• Repeated Hunt

  2020-12-09

  Engravings repeated

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• Ostraca

  2020-10-29

  Counting votes in Philadelphia, a video

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• Daily Quar drawings

  2020-03-01

  Drawings under quarantine

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• Italian Street Signs Vol. 1

  2018-07-01

  Street signs from Italy

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• 2018 Notebook

  2018-06-01

  Random drawings from 2018

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• Aoristic

  2012-01-01

  Screen printing projects involving repetition of art and history.

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❅Detritus

• Clickbait machine self-descurction

  2021-02-21

  Can a news page make so many click bait ads even it cannot lift it?

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• Consumer Divination

  2020-05-15

  Buy a computer, change your life

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• List of Wikipedia Emoji redirects

  2019-10-05

  Emoji redirects

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• Garfield

  2019-07-29

  It was national lasagna day or something.

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• Cleveland socialist newspaper covers

  2018-10-29

  Cleveland had a socialist newspaper in the 1920s. I compiled all the covers, I think I was trying to impress a polish person.

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  Context
  
• Patented Screenshots

  2018-06-08

  Some old ass websites

  Blog
  
• Spreadsheet monster

  2018-01-01

  something...about...idk, something to do with @ablwr

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• Frederick Wiseman Documentaries

  2017-09-27

  What types of documentaries did Wiseman make by percentage?

  Context
  
• Mapping Modern Day Herms

  2017-09-08

  Experiment using mapping tools on my phone

  Blog
  
• Memory Fragments

  2017-07-11

  I went to Venice yallll

  Blog
  
• Matt Miller Club

  2017-06-01

  Hit the club and listen to bone thugs n harmony

  da club
  
• List of Terror and Relief in Jorge Luis Borges

  2017-05-25

  Close reading is scary yall

  Blog
  
• Moving on from NYPL

  2017-02-17

  Me being polite about a bad situation

  Blog