Author Archives: Luisina Silva

As we are discussing visualizing information and tools, I didn’t want to write a long blog post with words. So I decided to share some interesting maps I found and a couple of good project that are going on right … Continue reading

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Today I discovered that Thesaurus is using 4 different visual representations tools when you look for a word. I tried Visual Thesaurus and it created and image that combines the classification of the word, its meanings and other words that relate to … Continue reading

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Visual Complexity

Visual Complexity Introduction and Chapter 1 Manuel Lima starts his book introduction describing how he started his research. During his MFA he became interested in visual representation of networks, taking the blogosphere as the “laboratory to track and analyze how … Continue reading

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Visualizing Information. Project: “Mapping the Republic of Letters”.

Please take a look at the project: “Mapping the Republic of Letters”. It started in 2008 and was possible due a three- year Presidential Grant for Innovation in Humanities from Stanford University. The proposal of the project was done by … Continue reading

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What is Digital Humanities?

What is Digital Humanities? The truth is that I have more questions than answers to this matter.  John Unsworth said that DH is “using computational tools to do the work of the humanities”…That tell us of the use of technology … Continue reading

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