The strategy is also celebrated for President Obama’s 2008 and especially 2012 campaigns, where his staff maintained a connected and thorough database of a large portion of American voters. They knew, for instance, that people who drink Dr. Pepper, watch the Golf Channel, drive a Land Rover, and eat at Cracker Barrel are both very likely to vote, and very unlikely to vote Democratic. These insights lead to the right political ads targeted exactly at those they were most likely to sway.

Networks open up the world. Over the past four hundred years, the reach of the West extended to the globe, overtaking trade routes created first by eastern conquerors. From these explorations, we produced new medicines and technologies. Concomitant with this expansion came unfathomable genocide and a slave trade that spanned many continents and far too many centuries. Despite the efforts of the Western World, it could only keep the effects of globalization to itself for so long.

we are offering a new way for both museum visitors (both online and physical, if we have installation in a museum) to connect to the collections; - visualizations which show all collection organized by different criteria complement currently dominant search paradigm; - visitors can discover patterns across all of museum holdings or particular collections - actively making new discoveries themselves as opposed to only being recipients of expert knowledge; - visitors can discover related images using variety of criteria; - visitors can discover images by other artists similar to their already favorite works; - visitors can navigate through collections in many additional ways (in contrast to a physical installation allows only one way to go through the exhibits); - our techniques are scalable - from large super high resolution displays to desktops to tablets and mobile phones.

Visualization of "Kingdom Hearts"

Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?

but also as a link between evidence and argument. The table became a notetaking device, a way to make annotations and comments about digitized text, image, sound, and video and start to turn these detailed observations into a larger interpretation.

There is even an ominous sense of imprisonment: one must literally put ideas into cell blocks.

Float along on a verse-less song

Shut your ears when sirens sing

Come along catch