d3.digitalhumanities()

Join us and the Bay Area D3 User Group for an evening about applying d3 and data visualization to the humanities

Jason Heppler will talk about some of the design challenges and goals that went into the creation of Geography of the Post (http://cameronblevins.org/gotp/).
A research collaboration with Ph.D. candidate Cameron Blevins at Stanford University. We aimed to visualize 14,000 post offices in the nineteenth century American West and understand the process of expansion into the region. The post offices offer us a proxy for thinking about community development and decline over the course of the century. I'll showcase some of the iterations the project went through, specific challenges we faced, and speculate about features the project could include in another iteration.
http://jasonheppler.org/2014/10/30/research-design-in-geography-of-the-post/

Ian Johnson will give a demo of a project he is working on with his father, David Johnson (http://www.english.fsu.edu/faculty/djohnson.htm) to make sense of the punctuation in a set of medieval documents marked up by the Tremulous Hand of Worcester (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tremulous_Hand_of_Worcester)