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4 Lessons for Digital Humanities Scholars from Donald Rumsfeld

As digital humanities scholarship matures, it behooves us to look to thinkers outside the field for help in crafting our research agenda and planning our projects. One of those thinkers is Donald Rums...

Elijah Meeks · August 27, 2014

Responsive Data Visualization

The final chapter of my book, D3.js in Action, is focused on explaining using the D3 data visualization library for mobile development. It was a bit of a stretch for me, since I hadn’t done very much...

Elijah Meeks · August 19, 2014

Why are such terrible things written about DH? Kirsch v. Kirschenbaum

Last week I read one of the latest and loudest salvos in a sad and very silly war on the digital humanities: Adam Kirsch, in The New Republic, chose to put his pugnacious piece out under not one, but...

Glen Worthey · May 7, 2014

Digital Humanities and Data Science

I'm proud to announce that Stanford University Library will be bringing on Scott Weingart as a data scientist to help support digital humanities scholarship here at Stanford. Scott is well-known in th...

Elijah Meeks · May 5, 2014

Spreadsheets are Information Visualization

Like most valuable human experiences, this all started on Twitter, when I used a tired meme to deliver what I thought would be considered radical to folks not involved with information visualization b...

Elijah Meeks · April 28, 2014

Neotopology

This is part of a talk I gave at #txdhc. It leaves out "principles of interloping in network science" which I'll try to put in a later post. When I was invited to give a talk at The Texas Di...

Elijah Meeks · April 14, 2014