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Black Ribbon for Mourning: Affective Solidarity and Feeling Very Difficult Data

Apr

29

2024

The following recipe focuses on using data visceralization to engage very difficult data, with an emphasis on what feeling the data can do (as opposed to seeing it), and strategies for contextualizing the data and its effects. There is a particular subset of visualization-based data science known as Quantified Self. The Quantified Self (QS) movement ...

Book Adjacent: Database & Makerspace Prototypes Repairing Book-Centric Citation Bias in DH Working Libraries

Apr

29

2024

My digital humanities center recently returned to a renovated library building with a dedicated public area. Our pre-renovation space included semi-public shelves full of DH-relevant books, but by 2019 thirteen years of book accrual meant our specialized reference collection needed significant curation. Some of the most appreciated books weren’t making it back to us, and ...

Weaving as Coding: Complexity and Nostalgia

Apr

29

2024

For readers unfamiliar with the process of weaving, terms that first appear below in bold typeface are explained in the Weaving primer/glossary section between the Footnotes and Recipe. I first faced a loom in summer 2017 at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft, during their Open Studio Residency, just before leaving. I went to Haystack ...

Knot Hard: Accessible Textile Data Visualization with a Circular Knitting Machine

Apr

29

2024

“That is such a cool idea, but I’m not crafty at all.” I hear this a lot when I mention that I run a Textile Makerspace, and teach Data Visualization with Textiles. It’s easy to see where people are coming from: temperature blankets, covid scarves, quilted topographic maps, embroidered Greek epic poetry — the data ...

Off the Wheel and Off the Rails: When Making and Teaching Go Wrong

Apr

29

2024

An aspect of making and crafting I considered when invited to contribute to this special issue on physical data visualization is the possibility of confronting failure, especially the failure in the make, and the outcome possibly going very wrong. To be able to learn and grow as a crafter and data viz creator is to ...

Developing a Creative Practice with Ceramic Data Physicalizations

Apr

29

2024

Introduction Over the past year I have been researching and crafting a data physicalization piece titled Me & You, 2024 (porcelain and thread, Figure 1). The resulting piece maps the physical locations of three significant people in my life in relation to where I lived at the time. Thread was weaved in between the shapes ...

RESOURCE: DH RPG

Apr

18

2024

Mixing up table-top role playing games (RPG) with digital humanities project lifecycles, Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford) created The DH RPG for a course 2020. The resource remains a fun and relevant way to explore and teach project management and ethical collaboration, and explore infrastructures critically. The site includes a guide to play, character building templates, and ...

RESOURCE: Exploring LLM Weirdness

Apr

18

2024

This week’s editors-at-large nominated “Exploring LLM Weirdness” by Cord, a quiz that requires players to convince Chat-GPT4 to select the right answer in a multiple choice quiz. It serves as an interactive lesson and teaching tool on the limitations of AI in certain scenarios.

EVENT: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops

Apr

18

2024

Registration is now open for the DH@Guelph Summer Workshops in Guelph, Ontario. The workshops will be in-person and will run over four days, 14-17 May 2024. Topics include: Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars Introduction to Python Data AnalysisApproaching Media Archaeology from a Digital Humanities Perspective: Introduction, Tools, and Techniques Uncovering Hidden Trends ...

EVENT: Digital Initiatives Symposium

Apr

18

2024

The University of San Diego will host its annual Digital Initiatives Symposium and celebrate the event’s tenth anniversary, on Monday, 29 April 2024, in San Diego, California. The schedule of events includes a series of workshops and presentations on acquiring commercial data sets, auditing diversity in library collections, designing digital exhibits, exploring generative artificial intelligence, ...

CFP: Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH)

Apr

18

2024

The third Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH) has been announced and will take place on 21-22 February 2025 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. The conference will also mark a return to the in-person format after a virtual version in 2021. From the call: We seek participation from a broad range of ...