Editors’ Choice: Feeling Scale Is Necessary to Inspire Action
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.
Category: Editors’ Choice
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Editors’ Choice: History Slam Episode 176: The Third Man
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 […]
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 […]
DH in Korea: The Digital Humanities Lab at the Academy of Korean Studies
In a previous post I briefly presented some of the richest and most commonly used online resources for Korean Studies. There I suggested that despite the plethora of premodern textual material that is freely available online, it remained to be seen what kind of digital humanities work scholars of Korea would be able to produce. Many factors […]