About this session
Date: 10th May 2023
Presenters: Bryan BrazeauLink opens in a new window
Main follow-up contact: Bryan Brazeau
Overview: A double-length session, providing a fast overview of a set of free web tools for DH by Knight LabLink opens in a new window (Northwestern University). The tools make it easy to create explorable visualisations of historical, cultural, and geographical information.
We considered applications in teaching, public engagement, and research. Visualising your data in different ways may inspire new perspectives on a topic, even a familiar topic that has been explored many times before. These tools are beautifully presented and simple to use, meaning that researchers, students and members of the public can approach data with a playful and experimental spirit.
In the second part we focussed on the StoryMap tool, adding information to maps.
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Resources and further readings
Record and reflect
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