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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

The Day of DH

Today is the Day of DH, when digital humanities practitioners try to document what a "typical day" looks like in their engagement with digital humanities. There is an official site that host...

Elijah Meeks · April 8, 2014