Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media by Jason Farman explores the intersecting mediums of space/place and new technology. New technology like smartphones allows the user to be part of both the physical and virtual worlds – to embody a space that is physical and yet also rooted in the virtual interfaces. Embodiment is […]

After playing around with the types of visualization on Many Eyes from IBM, I ultimately decided that this scatter plot was most interesting, based on the data I had chosen to use from my database. I had taken the building or owner’s loss and consolidated it into a scale I devised, numbering from 0-10; I […]

In the late 1800s, the insurance business was about ‘taking a risk.’ These risks were calculated into financial terms. Loss was also part of this insurance business as papers discussed ‘a loss of __’ as well as in general damage terms. Through force-directed graphs and sankey diagrams (which show relationships, connections and flow), it is […]

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The Spatial Humanities discusses the abilities of GIS in relation to history and the humanities. History has primarily been concerned more with time than with geography and space; the spatial humanities offers the ability to change that. Scholars have been looking into how GIS can be changed for and utilized better in the humanities. One […]

The Spatial History Project from Stanford University has done visualizations for several projects, but the one that appealed most to me was the one entitled “Building the New Order: 1938-1945.” It shows the changes in European borders over the course of what became the second world war. The write-up shows both maps and graphs, two […]

While I wish that Franco Moretti would have worded his Graphs, Maps, Trees more clearly, I do appreciate the ideas he presents. Historians (and literary analysts like Moretti) have a tendency to look at the smaller picture or event rather than the big picture. The big picture allows us to see the trends and cycles of history […]

The thing that stood out to me gearing up to our next discussion of digital humanities was the idea of data in connection to historical methodology and research practices. Several of the articles advocated for using data to rethink how we think about history. It’s a great idea, but a little hard to wrap your […]

Revisiting my previous post and the class discussions on digital humanities, I felt like I touched on most of the ideas on this blog: curators as respected scholars, collaboration, openness. There were also a few ideas that I touched on but didn’t realize their importance until the discussion: authorship (and students’ part in this) and […]

The Digital Humanities is the overarching term for collaborative projects focusing on creation (and recreation) and curation in the humanities. In this revamped culture, the curation of material artefacts is becoming an accepted and even an important part of scholarly projects and research. Openness is a key element in these creation and curation projects: open-sourcing, […]