Comparing Spatial and Temporal Storytelling Platforms
Over the past few weeks I have been called upon to serve judgement on tools useful to share digital stories using objects with time and location metadata. It has ‘forced’[…]
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GeoJSON Files of Irish Railways
So…using some rudimentary data extracted from OSM via overpassTurbo and then doing some hard target imagery observation I mapped – as best I might – the vanished railbeds – and[…]
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Using flourish.studio to Create Data Visualisations
One of the tools that I suggest to those looking to take their data visualisation to the next level is flourish.studio. Like others in this arena such as datawrapper.de and[…]
Using DataWrapper to Create Data Visualisations
One of the tools that I like to promote for those looking to begin data visualisation tasks is datawrapper.de. This is an ever more powerful web based tool that takes[…]
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An Introduction to Voyant
This tutorial is based on the very thorough and prescient workshop conducted by Stefan Sinclair at DH2015 where he introduced the newly released Voyant 2.0. Outline Installation and Setting Up[…]
Exploring Wax for Exhibitions
Wax is a Jekyll-based framework that offers ‘an extensible workflow for producing scholarly exhibitions with minimal computing principles.’ Sounds good to me. IT clealry focusses on optimising sharing images for[…]
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Advanced OpenRefine Tutorial
This tutorial will extend the earlier Introduction to OpenRefine. It will lead you through more sophisticated operations in the exploration of OpenRefine. This tutorial uses a sample dataset available at http://digitalnomad.ie/ACIrishBrews2018.tsv[…]
Introduction to OpenRefine Tutorial
This tutorial will lead you through an exploration of OpenRefine and demonstrate how it can be used to interrogate and clean your dataset. It freely acknowledges the wonderful introductory tutorial: Seth van[…]
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Making Making Maps Simpler
I gave kepler.gl a revisit this week. Kepler.gl is an #OpenSource platform deployed on MapBox and provided by Uber Labs through GitHub. It provides a graphical interface allowing for the[…]
Truly with a Flourish
The aptly named new visualisation platform flourish.studio went live a few weeks back and offers users the opportunity to explore and present their data in a variety of engaging ways.[…]
