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Editors’ Choice: DHQ Special Issue–Digital Sankofa: Understanding the Past and Futures of Black Digital Humanities

The journey to conceptualizing this special issue started in a summer seminar organized by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Since 2004, through its postdoctoral fellowship program, CLIR has recruited, trained, and established cohorts of talented researchers steeped in the materials and methods of their disciplines for work in libraries and cultural organizations. […]

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Editors’ Choice: On Voyant Tools, Stopword Lists, and Japanese Textual Analysis and Visualisation

Over the past year, I have been working on a textual analysis project exploring Japanese understandings of Judaism, Israel, and Zionism during the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō periods (1912-1926) as a part of a fellowship at Brandeis University’s Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Institute for Advanced Israel Studies. In fact, I am writing this article […]

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Editors’ Choice: AI bots are destroying Open Access

There’s a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, non-profit organizations, and scholarly publishers, anyone who is working to make quality information universally available on the internet. And the technologists defending against this broad-based attack are doing everything they can […]

By: Eric
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Editors’ Choice: Reconstructing Kalmyk Buddhist Monasteries through Digital Modeling

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 […]

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Editors’ Choice: Noise in Creative Coding

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 […]

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Editors’ Choice: Urban Patterns of Police Misconduct

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 […]

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Editors’ Choice: Behind every algorithm, there be politics.

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 […]

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Introducing POLLEN!

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 […]

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Editors’ Choice: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools

Voyant Tools is a popular website that offers a series of text analysis tools for examining word frequencies, patterns, and trends of a document. Although Voyant Tools supports analyzed documents in multiple languages, current tutorials and articles mainly focus on the application of Voyant Tools to English (Rockwell and Sinclair 2017). In this project, I […]

By: Lu Wang