In what he describes as a hobby, Rick Aschmann has assembled a lovely map of dialects of English in North America.
Posts Tagged: maps
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Sep 10
Visualizing Cartography
Brad Paley shared the illustration below with the NEH Digital Humanities Seminar. It’s not only a terrific visualization, but it’s proof that when it comes to this work, there is plenty to be learned from our (non-digital) past.
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Sep 10
Old Maps Explain Current Divisions
I don’t entirely know what to make of these patterns, but the patterns are fascinating in and of themselves: wherein older divides, between Catholics and Protestants in late nineteenth century Germany in the first case and between Imperial German and Imperial Russian parts of Poland in the second case, actually map onto current political divisions. The maps are below and the links to the articles are below their respective maps.
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Aug 10
Making Maps Using Google Tools
I just spent an hour of my time creating a Google Docs spreadsheet of the NEH seminar participants so I could try my hand at some visualizations. I entered about 16 names and gave them the locations of the universities with which they are affiliated.
No luck.
But here are the help documents I consulted: