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Word Clouds and their Applications

Data visualization is a powerful tool when it comes to surveying vast amounts of content in a timely manner. While text-backed data tools come in several different formats, the two most prominent and perhaps most useful methods of data visualization … Continue reading

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Data Visualization

Overview There are many different ways to visualize or present data in a history project, but digital tools enable an even wider and more creative array of such visualizations than in the past.  Most notably, word clouds (or graphic representation … Continue reading

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Social Annotations

For this lab, I chose to use Genius as a means of annotating the fourth chapter of Henry Adam’s autobiography The Education of Henry Adams. I chose Genius as I found it more straight forward and intuitive than Diigo or Hypothes.is, and … Continue reading

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Social Annotations using Genius and Hypothes.is

Social annotation or web annotation is a system where various users can modify a web page or web resources to add or remove information without altering the original source. A web annotation adds an interactive layer to an existing web … Continue reading

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