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Research Data Services May Post of the Month

Finding Inspiration for Digital Humanities and Data Visualization Projects

Looking at other projects can give you ideas about potential research topics, research methods, visualization style, or more.

A screenshot of the Texas UFO Sightings Map

Mapping with Datawrapper: Texas UFO Sightings Map

This week, I decided to learn a new data visualization tool: Datawrapper. What better dataset to try it out with than the UFO sightings dataset I’…

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#vizoftheweek 6: Labor and Digital Humanities

Have you ever seen a digital humanities project that interested you, but you didn’t know what it took to create it? This #vizoftheweek breaks down…

The Big 7: Chesnutt, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Walker, Baldwin, Bambara and (bonus) Hughes

#vizoftheweek 5: Quantifying the Circulation History of African American Short-Story Authors

Standard literary histories, which emphasize key dates and moments, sometimes minimize subtle but important developing patterns, which take shape…

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Data Structuring for DH Mapping

But what is a dataset in the humanities? Can you make one? If you think about “data” as meaning “information,” yes, you can.