Showing posts with label Ships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ships. Show all posts
Monday, March 31, 2014

Shipping maps and how states see

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A map I put up a year and a half ago went viral this winter; it shows the paths taken by ships in the US Maury collection of the ICOADS  dat...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Reading digital sources: a case study in ship's logs

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[Temporary note, March 2015: those arriving from reddit may also be interested in  this post , which has a bit more about the specific image...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Where are the individuals in data-driven narratives?

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Note: this post is part 5 of my series on whaling logs and digital history . For the full overview, click here . In the central post in my...
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Friday, November 2, 2012

When you have a MALLET, everything looks like a nail

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Note: this post is part 4, section 2 of my series on whaling logs and digital history . For the full overview, click here . One reason I...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Machine Learning at sea

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Note: this post is part 4 of my series on whaling logs and digital history . For the full overview, click here . As part of my essay visu...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Data narratives and structural histories: Melville, Maury, and American whaling

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Note: this post is part I of my series on whaling logs and digital history . For the full overview, click here . Data visualizations are l...
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Melville Plots

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Note: this post is part III of my series on whaling logs and digital history . For the full overview, click here . The main thrust of my b...
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Friday, October 12, 2012

Logbooks and the long history of digitization

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Note: this post is part II of my series on whaling logs and digital history . For the full overview, click here . To read the data in ship...
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