Following Up with CartoDB
We had great turnout for Monday’s workshop ‘Putting Your Data on the Map’ where we explored a variety of factors to consider when undertaking Geospatial Visualisation. The two part workshop[…]
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Using Social Media to Achieve Research Impact
I was asked, as part of the Queen’s Gender Initiative (QGI), to share a few ideas around why it has become so important for academics to engage with social media to[…]
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On DH Pedagogical Delivery
Miriam Posner (always a tremendous source of well constructed and imminently valuable knowledge) shared a lovely post yesterday looking at a few techniques for more effective in-class hands-on instruction. In[…]
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Learning Open Street Map
OpenStreetMap is an example of a phenomenon known as Volunteered geographic information (VGI) – the harnessing of tools to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic data provided voluntarily by individuals. OSM[…]
Spring Digital Workshops in the Humanities
DigitalHumanities@TheLibrary and the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities invite you to enjoy and benefit for a series of interactive workshops and seminars specifically targeted at humanities and social science[…]
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Irish Health Centres
The HSE posted two new datasets to Open Data Ireland and I wanted to determine how quickly and effectively these might be visualised. In this case I used CartoDB and[…]
Network Analysis and Visualisation in the Humanities
Increasingly digital scholarship is expanding to look not just at discrete objects but to better understand the relationships between persons, places and things. A popular way of discovering patters and[…]
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Omeka Fundamentals for Special Collections and History
On 6 November we held an informal, focussed session with participants from Special Collections and the Department of History at Queen’s to present an overview of the possibilities and fundamentals associated[…]