Preliminary Class Business
- Your project ideas
- DH events
- Preview of readings and practicum for Class 8
- Data Visualization Tools:
- Geospatial Data Visualization (Mapping) Tools:
- Timeline Tools:
- Simile Timeline (e.g., Kim Knight's Ring Transmission Timeline project)
- ChronoZoom
0. Intro to Class
- Fernand Braudel and Annales historiography (e.g., Table of Contents [PDF] from The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1976)
- Ed Ayers, et al., Valley of the Shadow project (example map)
- William G. Thomas III, Railroads and the Making of Modern America (example map)
- Zephyr Frank, "Layers, Flows And Intersections: Jeronymo José De Mello And Artisan Life In Rio De Janeiro, 1840s-1880s" [PDF] [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server]
- See also vizs from Frank's Memorias project:
- Michel Foucault, "Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias" [PDF]" (1967)
- David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (1989)
- Edward W. Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (1989)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
- Atlas of Cyberspaces
1. Our Practicums
- Data Viz exercises
- Geospatial Data Mapping exercises
- Other resources that may be useful in discussion:
- David Byrne, Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information (2008)
- Emigrants project (UCSB students, 2008)
- History Flow visualization (Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattenberg)
- Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century (University of California Press, 1986) [German edition pub. 1977]
2. Showing Something in Space
- Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (Verso, 2005), pp. 35-64
- Øyvind Eide, "The Area Told as a Story: An Inquiry into the Relationship Between Verbal and Map-based Expressions of Geographical Information," Ph.D. presentation in King's College New Scholars in the Digital Humanities series, 1 March 2013) (audio recording & slides [PDF]; talk begins at 8 min. 15 sec.) [Alan's notes on the talk]
| Images from Native American Ritual Stone Structures, YouTube video by QuietBuck (2008) | |
- Albert Borgmann, Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (1999) - Introduction
- Terrigal High School, New South Wales, Australia, "Introduction to Aboriginal Art" [slideshow, PPT]
- Michel Foucault, "Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias" [PDF]" (1967)
- Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (Verso, 2005), pp. 35-64
- John Bender and Michael Marrinan, The Culture of Diagram (2010), Chap. 1 [PDF]
4. Telling Something in Space
- Øyvind Eide, "The Area Told as a Story: An Inquiry into the Relationship Between Verbal and Map-based Expressions of Geographical Information," Ph.D. presentation in King's College New Scholars in the Digital Humanities series, 1 March 2013) (audio recording & slides [PDF]; talk begins at 8 min. 15 sec.) [Alan's notes on the talk]
- Geoffrey H. Hartman, "Wordsworth, Inscriptions, and Romantic Nature Poetry," in his Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays 1958-70 (1970)
- Jay Appleton, The Experience of Landscape (1975)
5. Showing Something in Place
- Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (Verso, 2005), pp. 35-64
- David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (1989)
- Edward W. Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (1989)