KL – Data Cultures

Posted on December 13, 2018 by KL

Debates Within Data

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This article was really interesting and got me thinking a lot about credit, especially based on the interviewees within our data. I wondered if any of them knew exactly what type of impact their 20 minutes interviews were going to make. We have been able to discover so much about the past with just some simple questions being answered about these peoples past. I would love to be able to show the interviewees what we have done with their info, and how useful and nice it was of them to participate in the interviews. I know the LA Museum has used the interviews for even more, so it just shows how much of an impact they have made. The author of Questioning Scholarship: The Digital Humanities highlighted an interesting point from the reading that it is likely within the future more credit will be given on online scholarly articles, so to develop that concept faster we should make sure to give a lot of credit to the interviewees.

Posted on November 15, 2018 by KL

URBAN ELECTORAL VISUALIZATION

This article based on electoral coalitions within times of change in population made me think a lot about maps, visualizations, based on politics and collections of votes. I have been keeping an eye on the race for US Congress race still occurring after almost a week between Bruce Poliquin and Jared Golden. Many maps, for example on The New York Times, miss represent the state of Maine. In the figure 1 below, it seems as though Poliquin, the republican, is in the lead. When you actually take a look at the percentage there is a 1% difference between the leading candidates. The sparse population in most of the ‘republican’ areas doesn’t not account for a large discrepancy of votes for Poliquin. This visualization must be read with acknowledgment, along with percentages backing up the variation in population.

The author of “Urban Mapping” also makes an interesting point about the diversity of population, which is also talked about in the article. The diversity within Maine is varied and not great compared to a place like Los Angeles. The diversity within cities like Portland and Lewiston must be acknowledged as well when looking at the voters map of Maine.

Posted on November 13, 2018 by KL

Zuni Counter Mapping

The video produced by AEON depicts the power of visualization on the basis of remembrance and understanding. Visualization of mapping areas through traditional illustration provides a better connection to what the land truly consists of. The narrator exclaims the power of remembrance, focusing on the thoughts from elders and how important it is to remember their history, similar to the power of the maps. This visualization of the areas of his property may not be understood from anyone from any background, but can be historically understood by those who are Zuni and forever looked at as historical data specimens. The author of “Mapping” makes an interesting point about elaboration within the video. Although it was clear that the point was about mapping and the best way in which to do so, some aspects of how the mapping works and its importance could have been more deeply described.

Posted on November 8, 2018 by KL

Lynching, Visualization and Visiblity

Muller highlighted interesting thoughts of how visualization was used to look into the horrors and demographics of the history within lynchings. I found it interesting how visualizations can thoroughly illustrate the past. Understanding these concepts of how visualization can be used within analysis promotes brainstorms for my final project, hoping to be able to use visualization to help observers of all backgrounds understand the data I have collected and questioned. The author of November 8 – Lynching, Visualization and Visibility, highlights my exact thoughts with “an example of how the presentation of visual data in ways that the general public can easily understand and absorb is not only effective communication of information but also a way of making knowledge and history that would otherwise be ignored accessible to all,” supporting my thoughts and views on my own final presentation coming up.

Posted on October 30, 2018 by KL

A Report Has Come Here

This article illustrated a new way to visualize data. The article made an interesting point based on the holes within slavery history, that many people during that time did not know how to read and write, causing for a lack in written history evidence. Klein describes her use of visualization to organize and present the data from that time period, which was an alternative way of depicting the history and its data. Even with holes within the history, an onlooker would be able to understand that data.

Posted on October 9, 2018 by KL

Guinnane and O Grada…The Power of Data in history

This article got me thinking a lot about how history can be used as data. The journals, facts and numerical data from the past gives an understanding of what life was like, even though some of it may just be numbers or names on a piece of paper. This article gave another example of categorized data based on the past, similar to the data set we are using in class. It helped me understand the power of a historic data set, and was very interesting to learn about.