I have spent the past few weeks selecting audio samples in Audition, exporting data and thinking about visualization. Hannah and I worked together to export raw data from Audition. This information shows up as – Frequency, Left, Right, Average. After we did that, we created a .CSV file. With Rob’s help, we mapped the dataContinue reading “On visualization”

Some thoughts on methods and tools.   Here is the process that I have used to analyze the WOAH database as a network. Let’s start with a sample entry: http://woah.lib.uiowa.edu/explore/   I point to the 5th field, “Women in the…” and begin the data collection and conversion process there. Entries for this field vary inContinue reading “WOAH – Data Prep for Network Analysis of Research Topics”

My project is focused on exploring the development of environmental writing in American magazines during the nineteenth century. Many of the authors that we today think of as seminal environmental writers — authors such as John Muir, Sarah Orne Jewett, and John Burroughs — made a name for themselves by writing for magazines such as Scribner’sContinue reading “Magazine Ecology – Networks of Nineteenth Century Environmental Periodicals”

My project consists of an interactive digital map that will portray Hispanic women writers who have been in Iowa City. When I first thought about the project the intention was to do a cartography of all Hispanic writers, both women and men. However, due to the timeframe of the project and the fact that I’mContinue reading “Hispanic women writers in Iowa: a digital map”

My project creates the visualization of people’s ‘cognitive structures’ (or mental map) using survey responses. Using a network analysis, this project classifies cultural groups that are identifiable based on the cognitive structure of adolescents’ life goals in the U.S. and Korea. By comparing groups of individuals who share similar cognitive structures both within a countryContinue reading “Cognitive Structures of Adolescents’ Life Goals”

Greetings, Everyone. This summer I am working on a multimedia archive to document the migration experiences of South Asians residing in the Middle East, or the “Gulf,” as the region is popularly called. Despite historic trade relations between South Asia and the Gulf, much of this migration happened after the 1960s with the discovery ofContinue reading “Stories of South Asians in the Gulf”

  Technology is built in a language of pattern and so is the world.  In these first few weeks of the fellowship, I have been thinking and reading about what it means to observe and record. In this mindset, the world is full of “ephemeral” data — the stuff that surrounds us, happening all theContinue reading “Sound as Pattern / Pattern as Sound”

Dr. Blalock had asked us to look at series of interviews on the Los Angeles Review of Books’ website, collected by Melissa Dinsman, “The Digital in the Humanities: A Special Interview Series.” I read the interview with Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson. Dr. Johnson makes a statement early in the interview regarding her idea of theContinue reading ““AREA NOT WHOLLY CONDEMNED””

I’m Marc. I’m an MFA Choreographer in the Dance Department and this summer at the Studio I’m building a project called Dance For Screens.  As a choreographer, I (probably) spend an inordinate amount of time observing people and how they move through the world. I’m intrigued by gestures, patterns, and the ways in which bodies navigateContinue reading “Making Digital Dances Dance Digitally “

Antecedents In 1987, Congress amended the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (1982) designating Yucca Mountain as the sole nuclear waste repository for the country. Still reeling from the Three Mile Island accident (1979), fears of an American Chernobyl (1986), and cinematic representations of nuclear crises in movies like The China Syndrome (1979) and Silkwood (1983), theContinue reading ““There’s nothing more important in a democracy than a well informed electorate.””