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Editors’ Choice: That GIS Button

Have you noticed the GIS button on our main page? It will lead you to gis.periegesis.org – our very own ArcGIS Hub Site. “An ArcGIS what?” or “a what Hub Site?”, I can almost hear some of you say! Let me clarify… Read full post here.

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Editors’ Choice: Putting Three Meals on the Table

Visualizing Indian curries and sabzis to help your family cook healthier. At Gramener, we each took up a personal data challenge over the month of December. Since my family at home had been fighting over how to share efforts in the kitchen, I chose to track the food we cooked at home across three meals […]

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Who Will Shape the Future of Data Visualizations?

I’ll start off with a confession — when I was a kid, I had no idea what data visualization was. Or, should I be totally frank? Growing up, I didn’t even know the meaning of “data.” It wasn’t until my early teens that I started understanding the meaning and value of “data.” After that, it […]

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Editors’ Choice: Accountability and Reconciliation, Higher Ed’s Fraught History of Slavery 

The aftermath of the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and others has led many colleges and universities to consider how the legacies of slavery and systemic racism have shaped and impacted their institutions. As more institutions consider the lasting effects of slavery, there are lessons and strategies that could be learned from institutions that […]

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Editors’ Choice: Minna de honkoku, An Overview and Reflection

In a piece that I wrote for the Digital Orientalist last year, I compiled a list of digital resources for Japanese palaeography that I had learned about and used through my involvement in the “Tackling Pandemics in Early Modern Japan” transcription project organized by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with the AI platform Minna […]

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Editors’ Choice: Which Generation Controls the Senate?

Which Generation Controls the Senate? Each tile represents a single US Senator. This chart is interactive –tap a tile hover over the tiles for name & age. About This Chart The data used to populate this chart is sourced from the ProPublica Congress API, which itself is sourced from the congress-legislators github project. Read full […]

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Editors’ Choice: Digital cultural colonialism: measuring bias in aggregated digitized content held in Google Arts and Culture

In February 2011, Google launched its Google Art Project, now known as Google Arts and Culture (GA&C), with an objective to make culture more accessible. The platform (and the content on its app) has dramatically grown since then, and currently hosts approximately six million high-resolution images of artworks from approximately 2,500 museums and galleries in […]

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Editors’ Choice: Tudor Networks | Data Visualization | History

Metadata, Surveillance and the Tudor State. The Tudor government maintained a communication network that criss-crossed the globe. This visualisation brings together 123,850 letters connecting 20,424 people from the United Kingdom’s State Papers archive, dating from the accession of Henry VIII to the death of Elizabeth I (1509-1603). On this page we can see all people […]