Category Archives: Visualization

The Cutting Room Floor

The recent release of City Nature leaves behind several static, dynamic, and interactive pieces that, for one reason or another, were not integrated into the final site. One of the reasons I created this blog was to showcase the work … Continue reading

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City Nature

Today we’re releasing City Nature, the results of work exploring natural environments in urban areas using topic modeling, GIS, and data visualization. The site has rich interactivity, including an amazing parallel coordinates plot that allows you to explore the greenness … Continue reading

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Toward a Connected Humanities

Zephyr Frank and Erik Steiner were kind enough to give me a chance to discuss networks in humanities scholarship for the Visualizing Evidence course here at Stanford. Here’s the talk.

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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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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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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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Accessing Data

The Chronicle of Higher Education has posted an interactive network diagram of institutions. The data is based on the reports given to the Department of Education indicating a list of peer institutions for each university. It’s an interesting little exploration … Continue reading

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A few networks

Documents–in this case aggregated based on city–connected to topics based on the strength of representation of that topic in that document (or in this case, meta-document, since its a collection of documents tagged with a city name). The above image … Continue reading

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Topicography

  The topography of a corpus, as represented with topic modeling to produce 100 topic clouds.

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