University of Alabama Talk

On Wednesday, November 8th, I’ll be giving a talk at the University of Alabama’s Digital Scholarship Center.

I’ll be posting the slides from my talk upon my return, but as a preview, here’s John Melish‘s 1822 “Diagram of the United States.” (The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has a larger version).

I’ll also be leading a brown bag the next day, where I’ll discuss the following projects:

• Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen’s installation piece, Movable Type.
• Whitney Trettien’s multimodal essay, Plant->Animal->Book
• Kate Bagnall and Tim Sherratt’s The Real Face of White Australia
• Martin Krzywinski’s circular visualization tool, Circos:
  • Circos examples:
    • “The Web of Intrigue“
    • “Naming Names“
  • Circos website.
  • Circos webtool.
• Chris Johnson-Robertson’s Zotero plugin, Paper Machines:
  • Overview at Harvard METAlab.
  • Download (or fork) on GitHub.
• The Software Studies Initiative’s image visualization software, ImagePlot:
  • Overview of ImagePlot
  • Gallery of ImagePlot visualizations.