Readings
- Frederick W. Gibbs, “New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations.” The American Historian, 2016. http://tah.oah.org/february-2016/new-forms-of-history-critiquing-data-and-its-representations/ Estimated Read Time = 9 minutes
- Hadley Wickham, “Tidy Data,” Journal of Statistical Software 59, no.10 (Sept 2014). Pages 1-5 to start. http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf ♦ Estimated Read Time = 35 minutes
- Richard White, “What Is Spatial History?” The Spatial History Project, February 1, 2010. http://web.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/pub.php?id=29 Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes
- Lincoln Mullen, “Map Literacy” in Spatial Humanities Workshop, http://lincolnmullen.com/projects/spatial-workshop/literacy.html (Feel free to read around in the next few sections.)
Suggested:
- Lev Manovich, “Database as a Genre of New Media,” AI & Society 14, no. 2 (June 1, 2000) http://time.arts.ucla.edu/AI_Society/manovich.html
- Jo Guldi, “What is the Spatial Turn,” Spatial Humanities (Scholars Lab), http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/.
- Amit Agarwal, “Choose the Right Chart Type for Your Data.” Digital Inspiration. Accessed November 2, 2016. http://www.labnol.org/software/find-right-chart-type-for-your-data/6523/.
Morning Session
- Search: Google Foo
- Data and Visualization
- Tidy Data
- Activity: Timeline JS: https://timeline.knightlab.com/
- Activity: Plotly: https://plot.ly/
- Another option: Palladio: http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/
- Another option: Tableau Public: https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/
Afternoon Session
- Narrative Maps
- Resource: Narrative Maps: http://lincolnmullen.com/projects/spatial-workshop/narrative-maps.html
- Activity: Story Map: https://storymap.knightlab.com/
- Example: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/interactive-maps-out-lives-former-presidents-180961861/
- Try to make a storymap with some images from the DPLA or from Elmira’s Special Collections
- Example: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/interactive-maps-out-lives-former-presidents-180961861/
- Alternative Story Map tool: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/
- Example: Mapping Segregation in DC: http://arcg.is/1ParSS
- Data Maps
- Resource: Data Maps: http://lincolnmullen.com/projects/spatial-workshop/data-maps.html
- Activity: Carto: http://carto.com/
- Documentation: Carto: https://carto.com/learn/guide
- Example: Charles Cushman photograph collection, mapped: https://sherah1918.carto.com/builder/cdb78321-4ed5-4435-afa5-3422f31e4e16/embed
- Data Set: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8wRKpQyX0l4cHFpZ3ZVMUJ5Z3M/view?usp=sharing
- Example: 1830 Enslaved Population in Maryland: https://sharonmleon.carto.com/builder/c045eca9-3928-4db9-961d-9ccee073b3da/embed
- Simplified Shape Files: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwQ67Xdq4RhRRm1IVEFMUHgwdkE
- Data Set: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwQ67Xdq4RhRMTFoaS1YdkM0eG8/view?usp=sharing
A site for exploring different types of data sets: https://www.socialexplorer.com/