I enjoyed reading about the innovative and uncompromising Father Busa.

For the same reason, the algorithm can’t take the multiple meanings of words into consideration, so words such as “well” and “like” are often marked as positive, even when they’re used in neutral ways.

I find the analogy of a microscope to that of a macro scope used in this text interesting. In order for historians to see the bigger picture of an object they have to break down the complexities set aside. It speaks to say how much information can be discovered looking at things from a large perspective

A similar approach to laying down grids is used when design posters/ads. The grid is one of the most crucial tools used by graphic designers.

I don't think this was a great idea only because information shoulndt be kept but rather spread to similar growing cities.

This is interesting because this was just around the time of the war, time when energy is most in need.

not sure what this means? Json file of results?

This summer a colleague of mine and I are working on creating digital brushes for industrial design students. We have began to develop some brushes for specific platforms but the idea of creating a platform to crowdsource brushes is very unique. From a business standpoint this allows for a wider variety of brushes and expertise as designers would be able to post on the platform their brushes and potentially sell it. The platform would take royalty on each brush set sold similar to how shopify and amazon run. Relating back to the course this allows for the "true" goal to be achieved (in my case the ideal brush sets).

Referring back to one of the my previous annotations, T-level knowledge is key in todays work force. To see that Bentham's manuscripts cover a wide rang of disciplines is reassuring for our future approach to industrialization.

This is interesting because a similar method of crowd sourcing was used with IBM developed an AI software to "argue with humans". This method is similar to some of the readings done in the last week where historians try and crowdsource their information to come closer to the truth.

I understand this in a historian perspective, because sometimes historians fill in the blanks of missing information with their predictions and theories as to what is the context behind the artifact, message, piece of writing or other. The information presented is not always intrepreted in a single way, there are multiple meanings and understandings behind it. That is why Digital History is built to include these details that might solve the issue of blank information in the future.

I find this interesting because it it similar to what we find today online with ecommerce sites. Shopify has bascially integrated all of the contacts/help needed for distribution and supply of the products you order.

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I had difficulty installing the VPN in chrome. had to consult IT for help, they said to use firefox.

More clear on what to write in the fail logs. How do I reconfigure the text sizing etc for my published part? do the # represent the titles?

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Is this how to post to the group? add a tag?

It's clear that digital history is a passion of hers. Here she displays how open data can actually work

I really appreciate the way the author has articulated this. This statement comprehensively encompasses the issue with data or notes that are not open while also explaining the need for open data particularly in appreciating and enriching the writing process.

This is worrying yet hopeful to read. In design, we are always taught to test and show your initial work, feedback is crucial to developing a good product that doesn't turn obsolete in a few months. At first no one wants to share their designs as we worry our concepts might get stolen but a bad stolen idea is still a bad idea. It is even more crucial writing becomes opened sourced soon so that the validity of information is more precise. It is good to read that things are changing though.

I think this is a huge sentiment that historians and scholars in all fields should and will begin to overcome for the benefit of all by adding convenience to research, increase efficiency, and encourage engagement in the community.

efficiency is important, as we are always competing. digitization could allow for Canada to compete internationally in research!

I found managing research notes and information was crucial when looking into for my 4th year capstone project. The initial phase of research was group based (i was in the water purification group) and all our information was presented in one file to keep track of any repetitive information being provide to our overall research. This shows that Milligan is open to the idea of "openness".

This definitely shows his viewpoint, which aligns with mine. If we are able to deposit sources, and create a more efficient and helpful research platform, it will help the majority of people out.

While the idea of an "open notebook" seems scary it certainly furthers academic exchange. Especially as a student, the opportunity to learn from other scholars notes, methods, or failures would greatly contribute to the learning and teaching process.

I found this entire paragraph interesting because it takes into account the method of checking, in this case "version control". Version control reminds me of micromanagement; the devil's in the detail. I think that is where the problem lies, because historian have so much data to synthesize, the ability to trace back sources for that information can be so difficult. By simplifying interfaces to help others help you (similar to how Microsoft word has done), this task of micromanaging your sources no longer exists allowing historians do what they do best which is tell our history.

I think that this is a good idea because it leaves some discretion to the researcher as to what they want to be published. On the other hand however, I can see how this may not be the best idea, because as readers using the source/research, it would be hard to understand what is and isn't included.

I really like this quote. It's a good reminder that a lot of the time we undermine our own work, when in reality it is actually good and useful for others. We don't tend to see the hard work and time put into our own research until others point it out.

It is clear that McDaniel is supportive of a really wide form of openness through the use of open notebooks.

While I think this is a cool idea and could be great for research, I'm wondering as a student how useful it could really be to us. Many profs ask for sources to be scholarly and peer reviewed. I can see this working well for those wanting to conduct their own original research but not so much for a student trying to write a paper.

This is an important insight that is not really expanded on throughout this article, as it exceeds its scope. However, I think that increasing "openness" could certainly change the way historians do their work whether it be more careful, or simply making research easier. The work of the historian will look very different.

This is very new and important development in research today. Not only does it allow the reader to better understand the sources behind a historians argument but also to view the actual source being referenced from their own point of view.

digitization could help reduce the spread of fake information. This is becoming more important in recent years.

It is clear that Owens is in favour of "openness". His idea of linking footnotes is a great way to get easy access to the sources to check the legitimacy of the content.

I assume this question is a rhetorical one, although I don't believe that it should be with the technology we have today. With AI being able to understand discrepancies in hardware and software, the ease of validity should be at our finger tips by now. It is almost crucial to be able to do this with so much information on the internet.

I think it is pretty clear that Owens is in favour of an idea of openness. His idea of having linked footnotes is very interesting and different from the other articles, I think this may have to do with his experience as a librarian.

Obviously this article was written in 2008 and I think it can be said that in 2019 there has been a greater move towards this kind of a thing.

This should be git push -u origin experiment as in the video

So the difference between these two is that fork makes a copy of a repo onto your github page, while clone copies a repo onto your computer, right?

I tried the two methods of inserting image - Inline style and reference style. But the output of both seemed to be the same. I wonder what I have done wrong here?

I tried some Markdown syntax in Dillinger. Seems like some groups of symbols can achieve the same thing, for example, '-' and '' both create bullet list format, '>' and enclosing '' both make italic font style. Are those groups of symbols used interchangably? Or they actually have unique meanings?

Make sure to have downloaded a text editor before hand

I was wondering why I was not able to log in, that is because there are two different sites.

It was actually easy, not too frustrating at all!

Don't forget to use the actual title of your branch if you didn't use the name experiment.. just spent 10 minutes messing around to realize I named my branch testing not experiment!

Was a little confused on how to do this as I thought the nano command was only for creating and not only editing!

I created the file, but my MackBook will not allow me to open it which it is downloaded.

FYI Had an issue with this, it didn't work when I copied the link straight from the address bar. It worked when I right clicked and copied web address.

Ctrl+shift+V gets rid of all the gunk 9/10 times. It pastes what you've copied without the formatting from where you copied it from!

Is HTML a markdown language?

Thing in our world today require multiple sets of skill and knowledge. To start your own engineering consultancy you must be an engineer but you also must know how to run a business. It is because of this there are many fields getting more and more specialized within specific sectors and need an acquired set of skills. By open sourcing peoples work this form of skill share allows us to solve problems that we never could have on our own.

This quote reveals a lot about education and expectations from students. Throughout my high school years, all readings were so focused on symbolism and pointing out all of these parts of books and articles that in the grand scheme, didn't make a difference to the point of the article. When I arrived for my first year of university it was a shift I had to make, because reading was no longer so focused on these minute details but rather more about understanding the content that was being presented.

While I'm not a humanities major, I feel like similar sentiments are felt for Poli Sci. But Carleton in terms of Poli Sci has become innovative for this. Carleton offers a master's in Political Management which focuses on providing Poli Sci majors the opportunity to study and practice politics in the face of real life experiences. The program is trying to fill this gap and create a program that can offer students a "clearer" career path.

This is definitely frustrating, when you think it will go a certain way, and you're excited, to it not being anything like the way you planned and it is no longer fun. It is certainly relatable in many aspects, but I think it is important to see this coming from someone who is an academic higher up in the field. It is a strong reminder to push through, even when things may get tough.

Hey Class, remember that it is important to leave a space after the # in order for the command to work.

This is great! This will help international research around the world become more feasible. It is great to find new ways to communicate and interact online when conduction projects. It will save time, money, and resources.

As a Poli Sci major I've used some the data that was mentioned above and I do agree that Canada is making a great effort to make more data open. Canada's Access to Information has also become a really great tool if the information you get isn't totally redacted!

The increase in big data allows for historians to have a better look at trends and patterns rather than moments events

This is significant as it changes the nature of questions historians may pose or seek to answer

I think that it is important that history is becoming digitized, as the whole world is heading in that direct from business to government. It is crucial that history follows suit.

Discussing the digital world and history in the same thought has never really occurred to me. This is an interesting and important statement made by the author as it points to the importance of technology for the historian and the historians work. While the digital world brings great opportunities for vast and expansive research, it also brings challenges for historians whose sources are now drastically different than before.

Interested to see what this shift means and also the how and why

I find this interesting because similar to the design process for developing products, it is important to look at the small goals (the detailed features in the products) and the large scale goals of the product far from when it is launched. It is only when both are taken into account when you can really come up with something legitimate.

I find this interesting because science in todays world is like the microhistory while science fiction in today's world is like macrohistory where we can see how far we can go in the future with the little we have now.

I think this is amazing and hope we can do some of this in the course. It is like solving a complicated real life puzzle.

Not sure what they mean by "produce textual abstractions"

Not too sure what they mean by privileged, is there a way to measure this?

I completely agree with this as you literally double the about of people researching one topic.

This is great to read as user feedback can contribute a lot to user research when building or writing something catered towards a specific user.

I find this line interesting because the once your remove the tangible product it immediately loses its ability to become obsolete. This allows us to make changes yes but from a perspective of valid information, this gives opportunity for biased information or wrong information to be published illegitimately.

Not really sure that I'm understanding what this term means. If anyone wants to explain it please do so!

Really interesting to think about. Both if these reading by Baker highlight the fact that these things that are seen as only relative to the tech world do overlap in other fields like history. I think this demonstrates that if we maximize our use of technology we can achieve greater results and understandings of what we wish to study

Having trouble accessing this? any pointers?

https://github.com/Nikkivardon

https://github.com/matthiaskeller1578

I am a bit confused about the blog post thing. Are we supposed to create a blog post every week? and where/how?

This seems like it will be difficult to learn to do. I am worried about coding.

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This is so interesting because I find that when reading scholarly journals or even just learning about topics that involve big data I never think about how this data is actually collected.

I will like to explore more about the "Data Mining with Criminal Intent project" and how it relates to the criminal system today. Has it changed over time?

It was really interesting to see how the preservation of history has taken its root in modernizing with humanity. Providing the access to historical information to everyone. Making it in the term of a right and privilege to all to have access to the bases of history.

I never knew such a concept could be implemented literally almost everywhere we look. Awesome.

I think it was important that he didn't limit the data and took a chance at using a non traditional method, ultimately it worked in his favour, although it is always risky!

Just learning how important this is now!! we can take big sets of data and analyze it much quicker and categorize/ organize it to make sense to us

sorda like what we did in RedExr, we used a formula to track all the (,) in out piece

can anyone explain what this means?

so much of a change from now!! Newspapers to day are somewhat outdated and often hard to come by. In addition they aren't cheep!!! its easier to read it online for free then it would be to go to the store and purchase one

It is very important to show both perspectives in research to eliminate as much bias as possible, in this case they are showing the amount of change from both views

The Huston Post was a news paper that originated in Texas!

I think this is very true, different neighbourhoods all over Ottawa share very different meanings, and look very different based on it. It give history and uniqueness!

new term for me, i'm sure the reading will explain but i googled it can came up with, "enlisting services of a large number of people

so much work and money was put into this project!

could be used for our reading questions!

omg!!!! not sure when this paper was written but postage is a lot more expensive in the past 2 years, image the cost now!

this seems like it is more beneficial with the huge collection of data that it is able to gather, i feel like this advancement was and could be very helpful

at first reading this i thought that since 1958 way more should have been published, upon re reading it i notice the word "volumes", i realized this is quite a big difference to what i had originally thought

truly amazing!! im shocked at the large data build up

I think that this is very interesting. The use of technology has been a growing phenomena in the past few yeas, however I would have never guessed that 90% has been in the last two years

I think transparency is crucial when it comes to conducting solid research, when you pull from sources that can be checked it only strengthens the argument.

This is a game changer because with such easy access to a historians sources it almost forces them to be more diligent in terms of ensuring the research that they have done and and the content used to back their claims is credible.

I like the author's use of the word radical. I think few people realize that history making is a political act, and that transparency/open access is ~democratizing~ power in an interesting way.

woot woot!!! the more the merrier

before reading this i did not not know even what open data was!

I find this so innocent, the research is not such a heavy top topics that we are used to hearing about, but rather a important topic that isnt life threatinging

Domain: https://vanessaHerstory.com Github: http://github.com/vanessaherstory

https://github.com/paigebryenton

http://electronictimetravel.com/

do we not us cu learn for this course?

https://github.com/oluwaloseyi

It's amazing that the ability exists to conduct such a large scale evaluation of history in order to better understand these watershed moments. I've read about the tendency that we have in the 21st century to view the current political climate and state of the world as getting worse. In reality, many studies suggest that the situation and climate are actually improving over time, but just that it is easy to have a "grass is greener" attitude toward time periods you have not lived in. A lot of this is of course relative, but I am interested in seeing how big data might be able to track progress over time in this way.

In seems that in many fields, the digital age is bridging the gap between the abilities of a scholar and the abilities of a citizen to engage with different types of knowledge. On one hand this is very exciting because it suggests new opportunities and a greater sense of equality, but there are of course many challenged that come with this too. It seems that anybody can be an "expert" today, which is on one hand good for society, but can also challenge the authority of formally educated experts.

It seems that the field of digital humanities serves as a way to work with and around the digital age rather than trying to combat it as many might consider when the digital age poses many challenges and can lead to information overload.

Reading this really helped me to understand just how digital tools can be used to examine big data in a way that doesn't require the human researcher to do more than in possible. By setting up a proxy for difference, the researcher is able to compare this proxy against all of his prints in an efficient manner.

While I think that ultimately what a researcher chooses to publish is their own decision, I would have to side with the student (though not necessarily his method) who opted for including the soft data. It seems highly important in digital history to show your data and progress in order to present the whole picture of how your ideas came to fruition and ultimately resulted in your argument. While presenting a precise argument is paramount, it would likely be more helpful for readers to show exactly how you arrived at that conclusion.

Being about to examine long-term trends by using a macroscope would be extremely useful in applying historical trends and data to the present day.

This macro approach seems to counter the tendency in academia to focus on a highly specific and micro topic. I am interested in seeing how this different approach will be explored in an academic setting.

This breadcrumb analogy really interests me. Using this approach would allow for taking hard historical facts and turning them into more holistic and easily digestible narratives.

This is a good sentiment since not everyone learns at the same pace

I can see this being both frustrating and stimulating. Pushing myself, getting stumped and being okay with it.

I have read and agree to abide by the Code of Conduct

This makes the class so interesting to me. Knowing that there's no exact way to 'do' digital history. It's all about how i meaningfully interpret and analyze the data.

According to this text, the most important goal of female life is childbearing (passing on good genetics) and childrearing (passing on good behaviours). Female worth is equated with motherhood, both biological and as a practice.

The story of this museum might be a good story to explore. You could crosslink annotations to other editions of the Equity, to videos, images, audio...

or whatever other dataset you've put together (tweets, whatever).

NB: has to be arranged as one file per document within your input directory

the tool has changed somewhat, and I'm getting an error on the dmg that he's made. I can make available an earlier version of this if folks are having trouble

DHbox Is not recognising the comand ?

How do you use Rstudio? with the DH box How do you Integrate the two of them once you have Rstudio on your computer?

Only noting a typo in case Dr. Graham is looking for these. The content is clear.

It won't let me select anything under 'places', could this be why my map doesn't show up?

I don't see the gear symbol. I looked up Rezovis, I can't tell if it's a seperate voyant tool or if I should be seeing it when I copy the text into the Voyant text box in the first page or in the results?

I dont undersand how RAW works or how you are suppse to use it?

Always reassuring to know that even the pros struggle sometimes! I have a feeling there will be a lot of "wrangling" for all of us during this week's exercises! :)

This link is not working any more. I could not find the code on http://www.matthewjockers.net/

Would it be possible for someone to take an issue of the equity and do this for ourselves?

This link is broken; use https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.shtml#Download

I would like to know how they came up with the list of organizations that are/were considered terrorist groups, was it through the author's employment at the Royal Security Administration? Or is that the whole "hush hush" part of this article. Just got me thinking! Perhaps this is an instance where someone could be hurt from this metadata.

It's quite amazing what you can derive from simple metadata

As I was discussing in my reply, thee commonalities are most intriguing to me.

Visuals are so much easier to read than tables, in my opinion. I am enjoying learning about the tools that make this possible.

I would agree that this is a small encroachment. Having recordings of meeting would be a much larger privacy issue, but the data the author is talking about sounds like something that would be fitting for the public record.

Interesting use of metadata. I imagine it will offer a unique and entertaining glimpse into that time period.

The use of this kind of statistical analysis really helps viewers who are unfamiliar with this historical landscape build a better understanding how the social connections between individuals.

This is an interesting way to think outside the box. Instead of focussing on the people, focus on the institutions they are associated with, which might lead to some of their human associations. This is essentially history policing work.

On the question of 'who is hurt by this', the obvious answer is those being followed in this manner. Though the content of communications is not possessed by the government, those who are being followed are still at the mercy of this kind of surveillance. This of course brings us to the questions the exist in our post-Snowden world. Though this big data is not always used in this kind of context, it still possible. Imagine this scenario. Say we had no communications from Paul Revere and his only association with the the American Revolution was that he knew some of the key players and attended some of the same clubs. Based on this data and this reading we would make the assumption that he was a key player, perhaps unnamed. (This is maybe a poor example as Paul Revere's involvement in the revolution is so well documented) As historians we would be granting credit to a person who may not have had any. This is perhaps a danger of analysing big data in this way.

Such a clever approach especially for a radio show. It reminds me of the way TV shows cut to a commercial right at pivotal moments of suspense in the show. It hooks the viewers, just like how the key elements are held back until the very end of the radio program.

Is there a rule of thumb for this?

I think this is one of the issues with bookworm. Though I love it with a passion and intensity it does only model language. Language can sometimes reflect topic (See Martha Ballard's diary) but that is not always true.

Not sure I'm fully understanding this reading but this made me laugh!

I've played with Google's Cloud Platform OCR. It can be found here

I think we've all tried to find a needle in a haystack once or twice on Google Search. Learning how to properly navigate archives is such an important skill!

This is a good example of how analyzing large amounts of data can give us insight we have not had before.

It is important to keep this in mind when using massive amounts of data to an interface.

This is a very important piece of information to know about the data. I wonder what would have happened if they did not know this.

I wonder if the team considered creating their own widget and would it have been better for the project's goal of being used by outside sources or worse.

This shows the integrity a digital historian needs to have. It would be easy in large data sets to cut corners.

I find it so interesting that a large number of people involved in the project are computer scientists.

These are the kinds of things we need to start seeing. A universal standard of digitizing will be incredibly useful in moving forward. However would this cause isolation of data that can't match the standard? Would some data be left out?

I know that a goal of linguistics is to find all the quantifiable similarities across languages. Using data mining techniques seems like an incredibly useful tool for the field

The age of abundance. It makes me question what is going to happen in this new age as all these new techniques are coming out. Myself I still find the most reliable sources are printed ones books and journals. Do you think that as we progress further and further into this age of technology in History will there be many who cling to the older methods or will historians and academics see the potentially paradigm shifting benefits of technology. Will we leave something behind moving to technology.

Good problem solving to separate the mission into two models.

Think of using google but the first 2 pages of results that traditionally the most relevant links are gone.

I remember in a previous module the word- breaks drove me crazy! If they were used so often in old newspaper I can definitely see a challenge for OCR...searching for hits of "Lincoln" might not be so accurate if half of the hits were missed because they were typed as "Lin-coln"

We have encountered issues with OCR in our previous module though! If the paper was blurred, smudged, wrinkled, had complex fonts or was faded OCR can make errors such as changing "rn" to "m"

I didn't think of this problem but it certainly leads to the conclusion that no matter how large the data set is, the researcher has to understand the nature of the data to be able to accurately analyze data mining results such as these.

and I see that this is indeed what they did! Preliminary data mining to create useful questions that can be answered by the data mining proper.

very important to actually understand the nature and content of your data before questions can be posed. I can imagine this is quite difficult; with a quarter of a million documents you somehow need to recognize some patterns BEFORE you even begin data mining and spatial analysis...there must be some sort of preliminary tools to scan the data before beginning the true work?

I have created e-commerce websites in the past and you have to increase SEO by tagging products with specific words. If you have unrelated tags then search engines such as Google will filter you out making you less visible to people searching. It is important to understand what tags are specific to your product/article.

I'm having trouble getting my downloaded "openrefine.zip" file to install... did anyone else run into this issue?

This is very interesting. Definitely would explain a lot of the research though.

Showcases that is be a team effort between computers and historians

not exactly a surprise! but useful to see that data analysis confirms it

definitely an interesting question! Maybe it is the nature of language in the time period that the noun "women" wouldn't be mentioned frequently because legal/flowery/expressive language was used throughout? Just a guess

I know I am guilty of only hunting for the main key words/points in a text & often miss the smaller details the first few times I read a text/data. However, by using a technique like corpus linguistics, you are guaranteed to be made aware of everything from the start.

Is this a a popular tool? If not, could the time it takes to prepare to use it why it is not used? Who else could this software benefit other than historians?

In historians craft we had to use Voyant to do this with a primary source our professor uploaded. Although it frequently crashed and most members of my class had issues with it, I found this tool very interesting. Demonstrating various patterns in written sources. How could this tool be used in historical research? Who uses this tool? For what purpose?

This makes it harder than simply being conscious about what we do, why we do it, how we do it. If we begin with a distant reading based on these papers, how can we possibly know what shifts will take place in order to focus on the right words/thoughts over time? Perhaps going into this process before knowing what we are looking for is useful. We might note significant usages/ shifts of words or topics over time and then have an idea that we should be looking for them more deeply.

Just as we discussed previously, the use of "outside" context and close reading in addition to this digital work is essential for good scholarship.

As a personal note, I appreciate seeing Linux included because all too often it is forgotten or ridiculed by others.

I listened to his final product, and it is really striking to hear the words of this soldier through sonification. It really brings his words to life and created an emotional response in me. I think that sonification is a very significant way in which to allow for greater interpretation of texts, especially historical ones.

I like that sonification allows for both distant and close readings of texts. Many tools, such as text analysis tools, seem to focus on distant readings which are only possible through technology, but being able to actually hear the words which stick out from the norm could greatly impact the way in which the text is analysed.

I think the ability to turn data into sound is really fascinating, as it creates a way in which the data can almost come to life and truly influence the way it's perceived. I think that being able to hear relationships between words in a text can really shape the way in which the data is understood.

I can see how word clouds can limit the way in which data is understood. Relying solely on text analysis could potentially harm one's understanding of their data. I think that using multiple types of analysis would allow for a greater understanding of a text and/or data, which would benefit those within the discipline. Collaborative work seems to general produce more rounded interpretations, which consider the data through multiple lenses.

I completely agree that reshaping data allows for one to gain a new understanding of it. Sound is such a powerful sense, that it seems foolish not to explore the ways in which our hearing can interpret data rather than our sight.

I am confused on what this means. Does it mean that websites often restrict some of the information or that not all information is able to acquire for everyone.

I find that often it can still be very hard to find information on certain topics. Most times when I have been writing papers for other classes, I find it very hard to find useful information or specifics that would help back up an argument.

Broken links for me. (Not unexpected, content keeps changing) As an aside, this is a good example of rot in digital sources and perhaps a need for digital historians to take into account version controls in the raw information we process and also the idea that having a more reliable digital source of history from a point in time means backing it up along with information that is linked to it.

I think its interesting that there is any sort of consensus at all about the "most powerful visualizations." How on earth would one measure that? Do they judge it by emotional response of readers? Or understanding? Or further applications of data? Are visualizations about communication or understanding, or a bit of both?

This is cool! I've only really been thinking of how these programs can do after they process the data, but never really thought that they can help you before they even get started.

I think this is one of the most interesting types of visualization. It is incredible what simply the use words can show a historian.

It's so important to keep this in mind: who are we helping/hurting in the way we arrange our data? Sometimes it's easy to forget that a picture has an underlying narrative as much as a text. Data, in whatever form, is ammunition; we need to aim carefully.

This point is a significant one. Scale is vital in graphs and visualizations as it determines how others will see your data. If you pick a particular scale so that all the data can be seen easily, that may diminish the point you are trying to make with that visual. There are also issues with this chart. For example, what about the years BCE mentioned in dissertation titles? Are they included? Does 500 cover both 500 BCE as well as 500 CE? These questions just show that sometimes visualizations cannot entirely replace text, because sometimes visuals raise questions in addition to answering them.

These types of visualizations are important because they allow researchers to simplify their research. Instead of searching through all of the data someone can run different simulations and visualizations in order to get the data points you need. These visualizations are also an important part of open research. Other researchers can use the visualizations as a starting point for original research.

These visualizations may be simple but they are important and easy to understand. They can be jumping off points for future analysis but also can aid in clarifying and simplifying the raw data, making it easier to determine what kind of analysis a researcher might do.

Again, the importance of context

I would like to see the data, at least samples of it to get the structure of what went into the visualization tool. (Maybe it is linked from somewhere here.) This goes back to the positive of open notebook DH.

I recommend the short blog at this link, it led to http://app.rawgraphs.io/ It looks like a neat tool for visualization. It`s used in the diagrams above.

incredible summary of my week. plays The Last Post

Great open notebook sample for a DH project.