Category: visualization
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Mack Diary Database Creation and Data based analysis
Intro: Our group is provided with Mack Diary as our resource. We decide to analysis the Diary and compare it with Powell Diary. We made this decision because those two diary wrote stories about the same group of people and both of the authors lived in Shamokin. But they were wrote in different time.…
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Arc Gis: Discover the hidden information on the Map
Doing a digital humanity project is basically a process to find the information hiding in the back of other information. In the most basic transcription work, we are extracting text from the image. Then, we extract statistics from text using voyage tools. Now we are trying to extract the interactions between places and people using…
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Advanced Mapping with GIS
Throughout the week we’ve been learning about the various features of GIS and how we can take mapping and visual spatial thinking to the next level. Mapping has changed a lot over the years, and the “subject matter once organized largely by periods increasingly embraces themes of region, disapora, colonial territory, and contact zones and…
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The Benefits of Using GIS
GIS stands for geospatial information system, a very useful system in which one can visualize, interpret and analyze a large sum of information. GIS can be used in many different ways, one way being a map in which one can layer information in an understandable and visually appealing way. The GIS map that displays the…
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Geographic Visualization Map and It’s Relevance
This GIS, Geospatial Information System, is used to be able to describe the Moravian missions made by Powell and his friends during the year 1748. The GIS has already been used for similar ideas, shown in Bodenhammer’s article, The Spacial Humanities, “archeologists have used GIS and computer animations to reconstruct the Roman Forum, for example, creating a…
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The Importance of Understanding Visual Rhetoric: thoughts on Johanna Drucker’s Graphesis
Over the last week or so, we have revisited visualization as a technique for interpretation. In our production of networks using Gephi, the process of creating data, preparing it for input into the software, manipulating it once in the software and then interpreting it once entered has been foremost. As we move on to mapping,…