Simon Daisley is an independent researcher of Kalmyk Buddhism and a digital heritage practitioner based in New Zealand. Through a personal interest in Buddhism, particularly in the history of Buddhism in the Russian Empire and among the Kalmyk people, Daisley has been researching Kalmyk Buddhist monasteries (khuruls), especially those that were destroyed in the Soviet […]
Noise is an indispensable tool for creative coding. We use it to generate all kinds of organic effects like clouds, landscapes and contours. Or to move and distort objects with a more lifelike behaviour. On the surface, noise appears to be simple to use but, there are so many layers to it. This post takes […]
There comes a time when using Word or PowerPoint or Excel is not going to be enough to create a visualization. There is simply too much to process or the envisioned result is too complex to do by hand. Then what? It’s time to learn a few more tricks. This is best done on something […]
We are pleased to announce that all meeting materials are now available from the event website. Slide decks & videos have been added to individual project briefing and plenary pages; videos are also publicly available on CNI’s YouTube and Vimeo channels. Please feel free to share these resources widely! Read full post here.
Nightingale authors come from varied disciplines; I’ve seen articles by visualization scientists, sociologists, public health experts, applied ethicists, geographers, etc. This report and its accompanying infographics reflect a Venn diagram of many of those disciplines. The arrival of the trial of Mr. Derek Chauvin this month — in the city where I teach and write […]
In my first class in computer science, I was taught that an algorithm is simply a way of expressing formal rules given to a computer. Computers like rules. They follow them. Turns out that bureaucracy and legal systems like rules too. The big difference is that, in the world of computing, we call those who […]
In the past year or so I have been seeing and hearing an increasing amount about the capabilities of Google Docs to transcribe scans in PDF format into editable documents. In the Digital Orientalist, Editor for Syriac Studies, Ephrem Ishac, has explained how to perform OCR on Syriac texts using Google Docs and Editor for […]
The University of Pikeville seeks an Assistant or Associate professor in Digital Humanities to collaborate with existing Humanities programs to forge a new interdisciplinary program in digital arts, rhetoric, media studies, and medical humanities. Applicants must either be ABD or hold a PhD or MFA in a Humanities or related Digital Humanities discipline at the […]
In the past year, archives and libraries have closed (either permanently or periodically), non-essential international travel has been heavily discouraged or impossible, and anyone who can has been encouraged to work from home. In these circumstances, historians have had to adapt how they do research, perhaps relying more heavily on digital methods or developing more […]
CHANNELS CHANNELS EVERYWHERE When I joined the DVS in February of 2019, the amount of activity on DVS’s Slack was thrilling! I met incredible friends, shared various dataviz projects, learned A LOT and fanboyed/fangirled over some of my favourite data visualization practitioners. In fact, I got so inspired by our vibrant Slack community that I […]
