Visualization (perusall)

• #Define   Identify places where authors define visualizatiosn and make a case for them.
• #Yes  Identify places where the author convinces you that visualization tools are a boon to scholarship and why you think so.
• #No   Identify places where authors discuss visualizations and you think that they are less convincing, or describing something that you don’t see as useful.
• #Challenge  How do visualization tools challenge traditional notions about the past or about scholarship? What are they good at, and what not so good?
• #Skills  What kinds of knowledge or skills do historians using visualization tools need to have in order to avoid pitfalls?

Databases

•  Stanford Spatial History Lab
  • Mapping the Republic of Letters: Benjamin Franklin
  • Population Density
• Victorian Books’ Words in Titles
  • Some Caveats – discussing the limitations of the study.
• Scarlet Letter Theme Wheel

Social Network Analysis

• When to use it
• Cheat Sheet for understanding it
• Linked Jazz
  • includes crowdsourcing
• Stanford Spatial History Lab
  • Railroad Directors
  • Patterns of Change
  • Western Railroads and Eastern Capital
• Mapping Networks in Dante

Text Mining and Visualizations

• Google Books Ngram Viewer
  • Mahwah ngram
  • Reproductive rights
  • Women’s issues
• Culturomics guide to Ngram viewer
• Time magazine corpus
• Signs Topic Modeling
• Mining the Dispatch -looks at Civil War era newspaper.
• Voyant Tools Suite of text analysis tools.
• Juxta collation and visualization

Word Clouds

Word Clouds allow us to visualize in an appealing way the data we are working with. It works best with either lots of text–where you try to get a sense of the overall vibe, or with structured text.

Word Cloud Generators:

• Jason Davies Word Cloud Generator
• Wordle
• Tagul Word Art Generator

Example:

1860-spread

Wordle Word Cloud of Mahwah Wikipedia page text.