Author Archives: Elijah Meeks

Color and Precision

Color has been bothering me lately. To get to color, though, we have to take a short digression into space. You see, a lesson you learn early on in spatial analysis is that just because your GIS package gives you … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as a Donkey

Advice animals are a long-established method of passing along knowledge and learning about subject matter, especially academic. But I have found no Digital Humanities advice animal, and so I offer up the only slightly used ORBIS donkey. I think we … Continue reading

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Martin Evans

When I first came to Stanford University and I was expected to “do digital humanities” without quite knowing what that meant, I had the very good fortune to work with Martin Evans, a professor in the English Department and a … Continue reading

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Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship

On Friday, I gave a talk for a Bay Area Teacher Development Collaborative workshop entitled “Technology for Teaching and Learning:What’s Worthwhile? What’s the Next Chapter?” I was asked to speak, broadly, on the role of digital humanities in middle school … Continue reading

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Learning Network Analysis and Representation with a Pedagogical Toy

This tool runs best in Chrome and Safari In the coming weeks, I’ll be teaching several workshops on humanities network analysis and representation using Gephi: Here at Stanford for Hist 10W: Visualizing Evidence At UC Berkeley for the D-Lab At … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Accidental Plagiarism

Karl Grossner, my colleague here at Stanford who I work with supporting digital humanities research, got a chance to read my previous post on geospatial information visualization. Karl’s got a PhD in geography and a bit of experience with geospatial … Continue reading

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Possibility and Probability in Geospatial Information Visualization

Update: This piece incorporates writing by Karl Grossner, without properly crediting him, a mistake in which I get into in more detail here. Doing digital humanities often means producing digital geographic maps*. These maps increasingly provide a wide range of … Continue reading

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Good Data, Bad Data

One of the projects I’m supporting this year is an analysis of neighborhood similarity of cities in the United States. The similarity measure is based off a set of attributes and can be represented as a matrix, which can then … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities Specialist Call for Proposals 2013

Proposals are now being accepted for digital humanities support of research at Stanford University. This support will take place during the Spring and Summer Quarters of 2012-13 as well as the Autumn Quarter of AY2013-14. In the past, this support … Continue reading

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The Sickness Unto Digital

Stanley Fish was here at Stanford recently, for a talk entitled “If You Count It, They Will Come” where he proceeded to count the dangers of the digital humanities–something familiar to those that have read his New York Times column. … Continue reading

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