The Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History project sets out to create a more nuanced understanding of the Homestead Act (and question long-standing scholarly assumptions about the extent of deed fraud) through mapping the ties between homesteaders via the… Continue Reading
In Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, scholars have reconstructed an early modern British social network to visualize which influential figures knew one another and socialized in the same circles. The digital humanities project uses network analysis to represent these individuals… Continue Reading
I explored Inventing Abstraction by MOMA, which is a project about displaying the connections between the pioneering artists of abstract art. The nodes of the diagram are the artists, and the edges are the documented relationships between them, represented by… Continue Reading
In Stanford University’s project “Mapping the Republic of Letters“, scientists added life to the Republic of Letters by creating sophisticated, interactive visualization tools. Two of the project’s goals are to understand what the shape and structure of the Republic of Letters… Continue Reading
In Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere, Kieran Healy gives a very clear and insightful look into networks and the ways they can be used to glean important information. Healy shows that the same network data can be used in… Continue Reading
