Tag: geography
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Time Visualization: Time Mapper and Time Glider
Time visualizaion is basically a way to chronologize history events. According to Grafton, people started to do these kinds of things from 500 A.D. (or earlier). This week, I experienced two ways to do time visualization, Time mapper and Time glider. Grafton introduces that the earilist way to do time visulization is to build a chart,…
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On Distant Reading
In class last week we discussed the differences between distant reading and close reading and how they can complement each other as we analyze texts. Clearly the mass digitization of libraries and archives has given the reader access to previously under accessed resources. With tools such as Voyant a reader can now perform new ways…