Visualizing Wikidata with Python

For this project, we used Python to run SPARQL queries against Wikidata and turn the results into interactive visualizations. The main tools are SPARQLWrapper for querying and Plotly for visualization.

Setup

The notebooks were built in Google Colab, so setup is minimal:

from SPARQLWrapper import SPARQLWrapper, JSON
import pandas as pd

sparql = SPARQLWrapper("https://query.wikidata.org/sparql")

Running a Query

After defining a SPARQL query string (see the SPARQL post for examples), you send it to Wikidata and convert the JSON response into a pandas DataFrame:

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