Category: CHI Grad Fellow Post

Table of Contents: Introduction Tutorials Project Examples About the Author Photo source: https://gfycat.com/gifs/search/mapbox Introduction Whether you are a student or instructor interested in using Mapbox, this guide offers a quick overview of videos related to the software’s how-to’s and provides a few examples of how others have used Mapbox in their projects or businesses. This…

Like Autumn (read her recent blog here), I have also been researching JavaScript libraries that can be used to build interactive elements into websites. As archaeologists, we are always looking for new ways to reach a wider audience with our research and communicate about what we do. While websites are a great way to achieve…

During my stay at Leipzig, I attended a workshop named Digital Management of Science Data given by two specialists from the Data Center for the Humanities at University of Cologne. As a humanist, the concept of data management is fairly new to me. However, after this workshop, not only do I realize the necessity of…

At the end of November, I was invited by University Leipzig to attend the first Academic Alumni Forum, the Digitalization of Research, in Germany. As one of the Alumni, I presented my research project “Multiculturalism in the German Football World” on the second day of the conference. This project was the final product from last…

Given it was not that long ago since my last post, I would like to take this opportunity to stay with my last topic and brainstorm new and interesting ways I could approach canonical works. I will say with this current mapping challenge I somehow lucked out enough (or perhaps my group is just truly…

In July, the Ghana Studies Association held a conference in Accra. While attending the panels, I thought about how the digital humanities can feature in Ghana Studies scholarship. The conference featured presentations across the humanities and social sciences organized around the theme “Ghana as center.” One of my favorite panels was titled “(Re-)Writing Ghana’s Economic…

I have always found maps of all sorts fascinating. Studying Eurasian history, I have relied on historical maps to try to fathom historical actors’ knowledge of space. In terms of conceptualizing my own CHI project, quite a few scholarly and journalist works that incorporate thematic maps and other interactive media have informed and inspired me.…

TABLE OF CONTENTS: I. Character vs. Nature II. Brief Month Recap III. Weather gods and Spirituality IV. Previous Studies on Storms and Natural Disasters V. What does/could Digital Environmental Humanities Look Like? I. Character vs. Nature Character vs. nature stories have been told time and time again in American popular culture. In television and film,…

Earlier this month, we were challenged to take an openly accessible set of data and use JavaScript to visualize that data in interesting ways. All of this information was put into a webpage that we had to build with the help of a bootstrap theme. As a person with little in terms of computer skills…