Category Archives: Spatial Humanities

Drupal Finally Got Me

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I never wanted to be a webmaster and always thought the term was hokey. I started developing in Flash because of its emphasis on vector graphics rather than its web portability and avoided Javascript because every time I looked into … Continue reading →

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Digital Echoes at AAS

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Despite my earlier negativity, there was some digital at the AAS conference in Honolulu after all.  Interspersed with the classic close reading of historical texts filed away in various archives, I saw a few hints at how digital objects and, … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as Marginal Sub-Field

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Here I am in Honolulu at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, where I will be presenting on Day 5, the last day, during the final set of presentations, as part of the only panel mentioning the Digital Humanities, … Continue reading →

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Authorial London, the Poetry Foundation and Posters

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I suppose I’ve been remiss in pointing out a few things that have happened recently in relation to the work I’ve been doing.  The first, and least important, is the creation of a couple Cafepress posters based on the Digital … Continue reading →

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Visualizing the 2011 Middle-East Protests

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

This is a visualization of Wikipedia activity from December to yesterday, split into distinct time periods by color (running from lighter to darker through the time period): Yellow for edits before December 18th Green for edits from December 18th to … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as Topic Network

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

With the help of MALLET and Gephi, I walked through the process of creating topic networks and dealt a bit with their possible uses.  For my corpus, I focused on papers, chapters, blog posts and collaborative works that grapple with … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Databases

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I’ve become quite the fan of Gephi, lately, and received a good-natured challenge by one of my colleagues, which went something like, “Why is a everything a network with you, now?”  Obviously, in the case of social network-like phenomena, such … Continue reading →

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Testing out Flash on an iPad

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Stanford is closed for the end of the year, and so during that time I’m going to repost some (slightly amended) material that I posted elsewhere (such as at HASTAC during my time as a HASTAC scholar).  Here is a … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as the Upgrade Path

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

It’s the end of the year, and it’s time to cycle out the old, staid DHS background for a new, hip background image.  Old 2010 was represented by this image: New and improved 2011 (at least the first part of … Continue reading →

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Mapping Critical Infrastructure Detailed in Wikileaks Cable

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Again, the ease of use of Google Maps has allowed for a quick and dirty spatial visualization, in this case the folks at floatingsheep.org have mapped and done some analysis of the Wikileaks cable detailing global infrastructure vital to US … Continue reading →

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