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Author Archives: Elijah Meeks
What a bunch of nerds!
There’s a lovely piece on ORBIS at Ars Technica causing what is, for a digital humanities project, quite a bit of traffic.
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Metrics of Success
After two weeks, ORBIS has received over 36,000 visitors, with 4000 return visitors and over 45,000 route queries to the map. People are downloading the traditional PDF version of the article, as well as CSVs and KMLs of their … Continue reading
Posted in Algorithmic Literacy, ORBIS, Social Media Literacy
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A Week’s Worth of Travel in the Roman World
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World has been up and running for a week now and the response has been simply incredible. While we all expected it to be well-received, especially among the particular scholarly community … Continue reading
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My Definition of Topic Modeling
Understanding topic modeling is, to borrow a phrase from George W. Bush, “the war that never ends”. And as I was re-reading the excellent posts by Matt Jockers, Scott Weingart and Ted Underwood, I realized that I may never have … Continue reading
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May 2nd ORBIS Slides
My slides for the talk I’m giving today.
Posted in Digital Scholarly Work
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Announcing ORBIS
Those of you who are regular readers will know that I’ve been working on Roman transportation networks since last July. It is my pleasure to announce the results of that work: the release of ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model … Continue reading
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Dynamic Distance Cartogram in D3
One of the features of ORBIS that I’ll be demonstrating next Wednesday is this dynamic distance cartogram, which is on Github as a gist and can be seen using bl.ocks here. It’s been written in D3 and uses a few … Continue reading
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A Visual Representation of Stress
It would be useful for network representation to embed within the representation of edges some visual cue as to whether the edges are longer or shorter based on strength of connection as opposed to other reasons (strength of repulsion, manual … Continue reading
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Review: Tice and Steiner’s Vasi Map
Tice, James, Erik Steiner and Allan Ceen. “Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome.” University of Oregon. http://vasi.uoregon.edu/ Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome was created in 2008 by Jim Tice and Erik Steiner and remains, … Continue reading
Posted in HGIS, Spatial Humanities, Visualization
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The Curmudgeon Club
My post tying digital humanities to The New Aesthetic caused a bit of consternation, and forced me to take a closer look at the movement. Matthew Battles gives the best overview that I’ve read so far, and reminds me of … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Law, New Aesthetic, New Literature
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