The Savile Files
by 5ocietyx
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As part of ‘Teh Savile Files’ project worked on earlier in the year and shortly to be released, we have been experimenting in data-journalism using a variety of presentation formats to try to make sense of vast data-sets. One such format is the ‘JSON Sunflare’, a web-based application that allows you to create hierarchical maps based on a central nodal point.
The nodal point in this particular example is Jimmy Savile.
It is worth pointing out that not every name, group or institution included in the map are guilty of any crimes associated with Savile and many are in fact his victims or unwitting associates.
The map provides an overview of how far his tentacles stretched into public life and the nation as a whole.
It is not definitive and will be expanded upon in later versions. If you have any additions that you feel we have missed then please let us know in the comments section below.
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Watch our film Was Jimmy Savile A Wizard? on Youtube
Is there any point to this?
we don’t know yet, perhaps it will lead somewhere, perhaps not. thanks for interacting Paul X
this diagram is superb. thanks! an excellent way of displaying a few of savile’s many many connections. i’m actually beginning to think he was supernatural lol in a demonic sense.
Cheers Jack, we’re going to expand the diagram with nodes we have overlooked and correct one or two errors. Have you seen our film ‘Was Jimmy Savile A Wizard? yet? We’ve added the Youtube link to it at bottom of this post.
I certainly have seen the film. I was actually one of the very first viewers to see the beta on youtube. It’s an excellent production.
I’m looking forward to seeing the expanded diagram. The sunflare works a charm.
I’ve been struggling with holding everything in my head over the last 6 months. Savile’s tentacles are seemingly everywhere and sometimes I wonder If I’ll ever find the end.
His activities at leeds university and LURE need more scrutiny perhaps. Also his ‘chance’ meeting with electronic warfare specialist and astronaut ‘Lisa Nowak’ and potential connections to the university of texas.
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=233959
oops. university of houston sorry.
He was a busy boy wasn’t he? Yet the police think he spent every hour of every day thinking up ways to abuse kids. He was a prolific abuser no doubt but what about all the other stuff? When he wasn’t running Britain or running marathons he invented Deejaying in his spare time.
Although he was very well known in Britain he remained unknown abroad which led us to think he mainly operated in this country but then you realise what with his trips to the Knesset in Israel, to the States to meet Elvis, as one does, to Moscow during the Cold War he was an international player. And then his ‘chance’ meeting with a NASA astronaut…just before she has an episode?
Appreciate the positive feedback and contributions – keep them coming, this needs to be a group effort to get to the bottom of this. We’ll be expanding the sunflare in due course and are currently mulling over new information before we update the film.
Someone on the forum said the diagram must be like a map of our own brains for anyone who has followed the Anders thread since the beginning!
The word-cloud and concordance plots are going to be interesting too – the first 1882 pages of the thread condensed into *only* 4 million words and its almost doubled in size since the copy we downloaded and used but like the sunflare we thought we’d release it unfinished or in beta anyway otherwise we never would get round to it.
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Currently verifying Savile’s links to the Kingfisher Project charity and other church-men before adding to the map..