Comments on: Visualizing Networks

By: Jean Bauer

Jean Bauer — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:21:11 +0000

There is a pre-existing google doc on many of these issues from THATCamp Prime 2011

docs.google.com/a/brown.edu/document/d/1UoyO2QScGvbAJUIUM5b7mq5aOTU36jnzExgXPGauGWU/edit?authkey=CODarugK&hl=en_US

By: Maxim Romanov

Maxim Romanov — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:03:13 +0000

I am working in a very similar direction: I study biographies of Islamic religious scholars (7-15th centuries) and the issue of visualization of their networks over time and space is one of the most crucial for me. That said, I am in.

By: lcworking

lcworking — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:00:40 +0000

I have been thinking about network visualization/databasing in the course of working on female activists who were involved in multiple causes at the local and national levels over long periods of time. I am thinking about ways to use an open framework so that as I work on suffrage and temperance activists in Nebraska and South Dakota, someone working on women with similar interests (who likely corresponded with or attended the same national meetings as my activists) could plug in data about communication, meetings, lectures, newspaper articles, etc. so that we can really begin to understand the extent of the networks that are becoming more visible to me the longer I work on the material.
Please lets talk about this stuff early in the day – I have to leave early!

By: Lauren Kientz Anderson

Lauren Kientz Anderson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:16:55 +0000

I like this very much! Like I posted in another comment, I would like to visualize the relationship networks as well as geographic movements of African American intellectuals in the interwar era. If possible, it would be lovely to trace them both to see if there are unexpected nodes of socialization beyond Harlem and Chicago. So far I have been largely relying upon my own insight and a little bit of Google Earth.

By: tamson.pietsch

tamson.pietsch — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:35:16 +0000

i also love this idea and have just seen it after hitting send on my session proposal post above. ticks many of the same boxes

By: Patrick Murray-John

Patrick Murray-John — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:35:26 +0000

I love this idea, because it strikes at a hobby-horse of mine — creating individual-level code/metadata/semantics that does a job for the particular research project, but could also be exposed to others as a model to work from.

The connection to Jean’s work is awesome. There’s a lot to dig into here, which could span core research and big theory and codey/linky goodness!! 🙂