Irish Health Centres
The HSE posted two new datasets to Open Data Ireland and I wanted to determine how quickly and effectively these might be visualised. In this case I used CartoDB...
Manovich on Software as a Media for Thinking
Lev Manovich spoke at the Trinity CTVR on the 6th Sept on 'Cultural Analytics: How to use big data to unlearn what we know?'
During the lecture, Manovich reviewed a number...
Tragedy: On the Critical Appreciation of Kindred Britain
How does one bring tragedy into the story? In the case of Kindred Britain (on which I have previously written), the creators clearly state that this entire exercise is largely...
Kindred Britain
One of the more exciting (for me personally at least) digital humanities projects that I have come across this year is Kindred Britain.
Kindred Britain is a network of nearly...
Keeping the Power of Visualisation in Mind
The rather innocuously titled 'Visualising helps make sense of data' by Teresa Tocewicz crossed my radar this morning. It's a short, succinct piece that doesn't raise any contentious ides,...
Visualising Visualisation and Data Density
Thank you to all of today's participants in the Introduction to Data Visualisation in the Humanities seminar. I very much appreciated your thoughts, attention and hope that you each...
Speaking of Books … and Visualisation
I came across this rather pithy article recently on Piotr Kowalczyk's eBook Friendly blogsite. 10 amazing book visualizations provides examples of the most compelling and thought-provoking visualisations of 'the...
