Category Archives: Visualization

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

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Isophoretric Maps

Isochrone maps are well-known enough to have their own Wikipedia page and Google Maps API tutorial. These represent the time to get to or from locations as a gradient and/or contour. Their usefulness in representing historical movement is obvious, as … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as a Part of the New Aesthetic

When Ian Bogost and Mike Migurski both mention the same term in close chronological proximity, I feel the need to pay attention. Of course, the one thinks it’s more fodder for taking seriously the personhood of objects (so much so … Continue reading

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The Building Blocks of a Visual Vocabulary

When I suggested an animated encyclopedia of verbs and processes, I naively assumed that nouns were taken care of. Not so, as The Noun Project demonstrates. The site, which began with the question, “what if I had a sketch for … Continue reading

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Watercolor Basemap

Stamen Design, who has done too many beautiful geospatial things for me to count, has created something I’ve been wanting for years. It’s a web basemap in watercolor.   Incredible. More information on how they were made can be found … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as a Slideshow

This morning I gave a presentation on the role of data visualization in DH work. The annotated slides can be found on Google Docs here.  

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Network Visualization Gallery

I’d forgotten just how fun Gephi is. A few exploratory examples below.

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Comparing Geographic Visualizations to Network Visualizations

With March having arrived, it’s time for me to pivot away from Imperial Roman networks and toward new projects. This means stepping away from purely geographic networks and back into more abstract networks, specifically the networks made of genealogical connections. … Continue reading

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Infoviz and New Literacies

Melissa Terras’ recent visual summary of the Digital Humanities has brought attention to the growing vibrancy (and budgets) of the DH community.  It also feeds the cycle of debate about the efficacy, role and usefulness of visual display of information, … Continue reading

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