Visualizations

DH. Visually. (in isolation)

Posted in Digital Humanities, Visualizations on January 21st, 2012 by sschlitz – Comments Off

check out this osmium-dense new infographic by Melissa Terras ….as I return to this data, I’m struck by how islanded it is and how useful it could be to review these figures in the context of data about the humanities in general or data about the humanities compared to the sciences with the DH data as a cross-section of the humanities data. the snapshot is a brilliant and important start, no question, but i think we’ll need a lot more data and a much larger context to parse it.

& this very smart XKCD money infographic:

CMS Nirvana

Posted in CMS, Publishing, Visualizations on January 19th, 2012 by sschlitz – Comments Off

the image below (txs GSB for sending it my way) has sparked some serious, unintended controversy for the blogger who posted it, but it’s pithy, and based on my experience digging around in the guts of both Drupal and WordPress, dead on.