COVID Black works at the intersection of health data, information, the humanities, race and social justice. We redefine statistics and information into living data and stories about Black Health. We are data griots. We are Black data storytellers. And we are redefining the future of Black health by marrying ancestry with data analytics & technology….
In psychology, affects are known to be the prime motive in action, and since we are storytellers, visual rhetoric should not be overlooked. Read full post here.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The first time I came to Ottawa to do research at Library and Archives Canada, I was walking back to the hotel at the end of the day and decided to stop at Parliament Hill with a specific goal – to find the statue of William Lyon Mackenzie King. I had spent the day going…
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…