According to Theibault’s piece “Visualizations and Historical Arguments,” Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information is an influential work in regards to data visualization, exploring how best to represent information. The book relies heavily on the examples of visualizations provided throughout, such as […]
Category: Reading Responses
Digital Maps
Richard White’s piece “What is Spatial History,” provided a comprehensive overview of the field of spatial history, and the different variations of the practice. I thought it was useful and interesting when he elaborated how spatial history differs from normal […]
Google Books and Transnational History
The Google books project was an ambitious idea, which began in 2002, with the original goal of creating an online card catalog of books. The goals of the project shifted throughout time, and became too ambitious and fell at the […]
