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What You Think You Know You know how to use a computer, right? Obviously that’s true since you’re reading this, but that doesn’t mean you know how a computer works. You probably have some idea that electricity, circuits, binary and other computer stuff are working together to make the thing run, but for most people…

The 10 year anniversary of Nashville’s Great Flood will occur on May 1st and 2nd of 2020–less than four months marks the remembrance of one of the biggest natural disasters in Nashville, Tennessee. The Great Flood of 2010 in Nashville resulted in approximately $2 billion dollars in damage. Previous literature have noted that natural disasters…

Project Launch Post As a returning CHI fellow, I am hoping to build upon my last years CHI project. Last year I built a digital repository in Kora and the metadata scheme organizing the data within it. This year, I hope to take the data that I have deposited into that repository and bring it…

Originally I planned on using Brian McBride’s Bootleaf to launch this project of mapping nonhuman presence across a Victorian landscape. His template conveniently conjoins the benefits of Leaflet and Bootstrap, but its convenience is also its pitfall, at least for me. For instance, if someone would like to add multiple maps or different centers of…

My project will be a digital representation of my larger research project, How to Read a Cookbook: Deciphering the Life of Malinda Russell. Malinda Russell was a nineteenth century culinary entrepreneur whose 1866, A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen, is the first known book published by an…

Recently, I was sent galleys for an upcoming co-authored article to be published in POROI. The article, called “Addressing the Social Determinants of Health: “Vulnerable” Populations and the Presentation of Healthy People 2020” is a critique of the limiting definitions of “population” and “resiliency” found in the massive data project compiled by the U.S. Department…

In life, we are often told to do our own thing without thinking about what others think. Be yourself. In academia, the sentiment can often be to do your own thing because what others think is uneducated bull-pucky. This is maybe a bit extreme, but often, consideration for what the public thinks about our research…

Digitized sources make it possible for us to conduct research more easily than ever before. My own research continues to benefit from digital collections such as Michigan State’s own Feeding America project. The New York Public Library’s (NYPL) digital collections of historic menus and also every copy of The Negro Motorist Green Book have been…