Category Archives: Tools

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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The TED Talk Fetish

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

On Wednesday I gave a two-hour workshop on using Gephi. I had hoped to get into the more exotic aspects of the software, including dynamic networks and using sub-filters, but I barely had enough time to demonstrate how to set … Continue reading →

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Maps, Graphs and Workshops

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

In preparation for tomorrow’s Introduction to Gephi Workshop, I’ve put up a PDF of the short presentation up. The full workshop will focus on hands-on use of Gephi with examples of spigots and filters and analytics and all the rest … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as the Golden Age of Software

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

It seems Thursdays are database days in the digital humanities, as along with Ben Schmidt’s excellent look at building performant databases for humanities research, Sean Takats of Zotero has just posted an extremely informative exploration of Zotero’s migration to Amazon … 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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News From the Front

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

MALLET, from UMASS-Amherst, breaking down the narrative bits in a very large database into 50 topics, with Gephi visualizing the network of connections between topics and subjects from an an earlier processing of the same database, but with only ten … 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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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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Chinese Civilization in Time and Space

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Fan I Chun was here at Stanford yesterday, visiting from Academica Sinica where he’s busy developing GIS datasets for China based on aerial photos, historical maps, gazetteers and atlases. Stanford has had authorized access to the Chinese Civilization in Time … Continue reading →

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