Overview This post will consist of a discussion of my final project for History 680: Digital Humanities. I have attached a URL like to the project here: https://chesterpelsang.org/ExhibitDisplayofLouisianaMaps/ This is a project focused around working with digitized collections from the Library of Congress (LOC) website. There are two main aspects to this project: the first…
Category: Visualization
Tool Comparison: Voyant, Kepler, and Palladio
Overview: This posting will be the conclusion of the data visualization section. The three postings within this section are: Voyant, Kepler, and Palladio; all three are use computer algorithms to present data visually to the researcher or user. This post will have three parts: The first part compares the tools, and offers discussion of any…
Palladio: Network Analysis and New User Guide
Overview: This post will continue our discussion of data visualization, moving us on to network analysis and the networking tool Palladio. Like previous postings, this entry contains two sections: the first is a general overview of the network mapping tool Palladio – what the tool allows one to do and any special visualizations tools it…
Kepler: Data Mapping and New User Guide
*The above mapping project was created using the slave narratives from the Federal Writers Project (FWP) under the New Deal reform. The complete set of data and information can be found here on the Library of Congress website. Overview: This posting has two main parts; the first is a brief reflection on Kepler as a…
Voyant: Text Visualization and New User Guide
Introductory Thoughts The content of this post relates to the digital collection “Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938”. The information about this collection can be found here from the Library of Congress. In essence, this was an oral history project produced by the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) of…