In the Data Laboratory, select “Import Spreadsheet.” Press the ellipsis “...” and locate the CSV you created. Make sure that the Separator is listed as “Comma” and the “As table” is listed as “Edges table.” Press “Next,” then “Finish.”
It won't let me import my file as it says "The file can't have repeated column names". Did this happen to anyone else?
Maps are not necessarily always the most appropriate visualizations for the job, but when they are used well, they can be extremely informative.
For the visualization above, even being informed what a Cartogram was, helped a lot in explaining how to read it.
The right visualization can replace pages of text with a single graph and still convey the same amount of information.
If using simplified visualizations, wouldn't this cause some of the visualizations to lack certain data? In the event that it does require a full page of text to explain, maybe a solution, would be to keep both?
Experts in the area have argued that the most powerful visualizations are static images with clear legends and a clear point, although that may be changing with increasingly powerful interactive displays which give users impressive amounts of control over the data.
I think a lot of it depends what you are presenting. If we were in class using mathematics, than yes, I would agree because the last thing I want is for it to be displayed as a Prezi Powerpoint. Meanwhile, if you were learning about construction, and how they pour concrete into form work, the best way of showing this is with a short animation.
contain some text, and any visualization we create is imbued with the narrative and purpose we give it
I think this is a great way to display data. Even if the text is short, it still gives a bit of context and would allow you more freedom of displaying the data and not having to be as strict with making the data clear as possible.
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\n[^~].+ says command not found ^[^~]*$ says that substitution failed?
I just tried this out and neither commands are working.
\r\n[^~].+
I can't really figure out this part. I typed \r\n[^~].+ into Refine and nothing comes up. I've tried the other systems and this doesn't seem to work, even when I plug this into the dhbox, it doesn't seem to get rid of them.
ike line 178,
does anyone know the command in nano text editor that allows us to see the name of the lines? I've been counting in the meantime, but if anyone knows at the top of their head, i'll copy and put that in my fail log for later to look back on.
1. Explore Data
Will use this in the future and just go back and change short acronyms into their appropriate terms.
The human reader simply cannot identify spatial patterns at that level of mundaneness, granularity, and fragmentation. Fortunately, computers are quite good at this kind of reading.
Something that I never really thought about in writing. Can you imagine if a computer can even identify certain authors just based on historical data collected on their style of writing collected. This would be beneficial to collecting data if for instance you discover a piece of writing without the authors name on it.
The second visualization compares the Telegraph and Texas Register and Houston Daily Post’s imagined geographies from the same vantage point in space but at different points in time
I don't like how they use different points in time. It's hard to compare two different Newspapers, at two different times. It kinda makes the data harder to constrast because the information of one isn't as consistent. I would of used the same newspaper for two different times, or in the same time with two different times. I just feel by using the same newspaper, the author would make his point stronger that they were targeting certain geography.
a specific sense of place.
An example of this could be central park. You can be in the middle of a city, but yet feel close to nature.
The grid system
These grid systems are so interesting to study. So many planners approach this in different ways and it all vary in different cities. Some can be divided simply by squares, rectangles, circles, or even different set of patterns all put together.
sudo apt-get install pdftk
Won't let me download. Says it is " E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?"
notes in your repository.
Is this "commit" comes in? Should we making comments in the DH Box and and uploading it to Git Hub, or should we be making comments in the Git Hub when we post this?
Download your results.
For this part, I'm only using the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg because when I use the Commwealth War Graves Commission, the page will just refresh. I'm assuming that it's just because it can't find anyone under my last name. But as for the download your results? Not quite sure how to do this?
If you still don't see your text
"This page contains the following errors:
error on line 2 at column 1: Extra content at the end of the document Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error."
This is what i'm getting. I know the file and browser are fine because the 8 shows up. Did anyone else get this? I'm just not sure what I did wrong, I've checked everything so far.
What makes you believe this site is a trustworthy provider of historical texts?
That there are actual scanned documents.
What makes you believe this site is NOT a trustworthy provider of historical texts?
The layout of the website as well. Usually it's not as flashy.
When did the ‘Great War’ become the ‘First World War’? < http://dhistory.org/querypic/43/>
Never knew that it was referenced as that. Shows how important the research of history is.
If we are developing resources to support the creation of new knowledge we cannot simply black box our tech and trade on trust.
Never heard of Trove, but from some of the professors I have, they all say Wikipedia is horrible. Prior to University, I use to always use it for high school projects and etc. Weird to think that something I trusted nearly my whole life for education is now something unreliable. Probably learned a good portion of knowledge that ended up being false.
Of course we all want to make life as easy as possible for the people who use our services. The question is how the pursuit of a Google-like experience constrains our options and assumptions.
I remmeber reading a while ago that Google keeps track of your information, for example, your location, therefore whenever you search something, it is based on what you would need. For example, if I just went to google and typed in online shopping, it will all be in Canadian dollars and direct me to either an American or Canadian Website rather than to an Australian one. This really made me think about how this kind of search engine is a lot more complex than I thought. Even all the advertisements are all based on what I would like, or something that I have previously searched.
In the library world, seamless discovery is commonly associated with what are variously called ‘next-generation catalogues’, ‘web-scale discovery services’ or ‘discovery layers’.1
I specifically relay on the internet for this purpose. To go through libraries to search certain information takes so much time. For example, if you have the PDF, all you need to do is press control f, and you have the ability to search a book. This is so useful in a massive textbook when you want to use something as a reference that you read previously. I really only go to the library because I like the environment to study in and it helps me focus. Realistically though, everything I do there can almost all be done at home.
Technology promises instant access to information — a future beyond silos.
This defiantly holds true, as long as you have a good internet connection, you can access anything online within seconds.
Information superhighway’?
Never heard of this term before.
When we topic model Martha Ballard's diary, did she give this to us?
Reminds my of the Diary of Anne Frank, it touched so many people, yet was never intended for others to read.
It is extremely difficult as someone who is part of a web publishing software project and has published different types of content-driven digital projects to sit on the sidelines for her own publication.
That would be extremely frustrating.
the jobs crisis for humanities PhDs worsens;
I have a cousin right now who is getting her PhD in Sports Medicine and one of her colleges just finished and moved back to Porto, Portugal and we actually went out to see her three weeks ago, and she was explaining to me, no one will hire her. And with the jobs she is looking at, they are only willing to give her a masters salary. She's saying shes going to have to move to find something too. It's really hitting everyone.
parents strongly encourage their students to turn toward fields that seem more pragmatic in such economically uncertain times, fields that seem somehow to describe a job; administrators note a decline in humanities majors and cut budgets and positions; the jobs crisis for humanities PhDs worsens;
My personal opinion is that you have to find something you enjoy doing. Your not going to go get a PhD in something if your not happy with it. Not all of us are cut out for medicine or law. Personally, I think I would hate both. I'm fortunate that my passion is a 'professional career' but if i did not enjoy school, there be no way in hell i'd be still at school at 4am on a Friday night, and not because i'm behind but because i'm just barley keeping up. I think you shouldn't push your child into something they don't want to be, and an arts degree opens doors. A degree is a degree, you may not get a job immediately like someone in medicine, but hey, your still ahead than where you were four years ago.
Writing in public counters this.
I kinda like the idea of writing something than publishing it and hearing feedback. If your writing something and constantly hearing feedback, it's going to change a lot of what your doing and also cause a long delay in the process of getting something published. Of course, this is just one con I'm pointing out.
This is going to be a bit less developed, as one of the major CSV files is currently not working (I have a ticket in with the Open Data Ontario people). But check out what we have on births:
This type of information is important to note because for example it help businesses out to help gear their sales to certain customers. So not just historians can make use of this.
were surprised that historians would even hesitate if they could share their research data.
I can see why this would be a concern. I mean nothing would be worse than you starting a research project, than someone else seeing what you are doing, does it better and publishes it prior to you and they get the credit for the idea.
Thanks to the notebook’s digitization, modern readers are no longer so constrained; anyone with access to the Internet can now see what Phillips wrote without having to travel to the Boston Public Library in Copley Square, which is where the original resides.
It'd also be nice if they had an other window of it in a computer generated text rather than Philips hand writing. This would reach more viewers to be able to understand his research.
o that errors can be more easily spotted and corrected.
You would need like a team to do this, because a person questioning your work may not always be right.
a brief 4 page adaptation
Once again high lightening something that has been mentioned in last week's reading. The importance of narrowing down information for the reader and selecting what was most important.
You now have a folder called 'Spoon-Knife' on your machine! Any changes you make inside that folder can be tracked with commits. You can also git push -u origin master when you're inside it, and the changes will show up on your OWN copy (your fork) on Github.com. c. Make a fork of, and then clone, one of your classmates' repositories. Create a new branch. Add a new file to the repository on your machine, and then push it to your fork on Github. Remember, your new file will appear on the new branch you created, NOT the master branch.
Can someone help me out here?
I don't know how to quite make changes inside that folder? I have it installed but I don't know the command to enter it if that makes sense? I scrolled up and I think i'm missing how to do that.
(here is a quick primer on markdown by Sarah Simpkin).
I did this tutorial and tried to publish it into GitHub but unfortunately it wouldn't export.
Please annotate their work with your observations and questions;
It won't let me annotate on the sites?Not sure how to change this.
This talk forms a quiet reflection on how the creation of new digital resources has changed the ways in which we read the past; and an attempt to worry at the substantial impact it is having on the project of the humanities and history more broadly
One thing to consider when it comes to a these digital resources, is that could it also be hurting historical data? There are so many users online, so many people can be posting misinformation and different versions or photos of historical data. Having so many sources can alter the reality of history in a way. It is incredible how much access we have, but it has already interfered, with unreliable sources like Wikipedia.
certainly change the functions of the university.
It already has. By having so many things online, we are able to access information and learn and be inspired from others. A question to ask is, how much more will it change and effect our studies further.
were feeling overwhelmed about their abilities to synthesise the past and peer into the future
It's interesting to compare how people felt back in the 1500s to the 1800s to present day. With the explosion of art and knowledge, there was a sense of excitement. Than once we enter later on, and start expanding our knowledge in science. For example, if we were to also look at the age of Enlightenment, you had people having an eerie feeling, a sublime feeling if you will. This overwhelming feeling still exists but it seems a lot more of the norm now. No one is going to freak out if we discover an other new planet, just like no one is going to be confused how they made an iPhone smaller, it's almost as if its expected now. Just a random note, how people's opinions have changed over the course of the last 500 years in terms of the idea of overwhelming data.
but rather they made designs that they thought were likely to appeal to the anticipated audiences of one or more prospective publishers.
I like how he points this out. It's vital to think about your audience and not always solely on your work alone.
History writing is concise, precise, and selective
I agree with the author, you can't add everything to your finish product. You need the most important data that tells the most and I personally was taught never to REPEAT data ever. If two analysis I did were similar, I'd ditch the one that explained less.
making visualisations of those abstractions
I can also relate to Baker as well, because a good portion of my studies include researching a building or a site, and than making an abstract representation of this. Reading this article is making me look forward to some of the modules and doing these kind of graphs or something different.
‘soft’ digital/’digital’/Digital
I can relate to this a lot as the process of doing something can make you grow as an individual. Sometimes you don't end up using some of the data you have collected or the graphs you've made for a project, but you were able to gain some sort of skill that can be used in the future.
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