The First Draft

S2E9: If We Have Opinions Let’s Go with Mine

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Topics: Jason’s HASTAC lightning talk "Networks in the Humanities: An Introduction", following up on @mcburton’s feedback, "F··k It, Ship It", and the challenges of revisiting old projects.

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  • HASTAC is an alliance of nearly 13,000 humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning.

    • HASTAC 2015: The Art and Science of Digital Humanities: Full Schedule

    • Jason Heppler: "Networks in the Humanities: An Introduction" What are networks and how have scholars used them? My talk sets the stage by demonstrating the ways humanists have used network analysis to uncover patterns, systems, and relationships. That relationships help us understand the world is not a new idea, but our opportunity to visualize large networks and formalize network methods for academic research is much newer. My talk will quickly give examples how scholars have used networks and address the kind of situations and questions we can ask with network analysis today.

      • @mcburton on Twitter

      • "Listening to @firstdraftcast and want to push back on @jaheppler that the post office stuff IS data. Data does not imply completeness"

        • Beyond Line and Pie Charts: Practical Applications of Complex Data Viz by Elijah Meeks

        • While data visualization has grown in popularity, most of the business application still favors two kinds: charts familiar to everyone (such as pie charts or line charts) or map-based geospatial information visualization. While data viz tools and libraries provide access to more exotic methods, it can be hard to deploy them outside specific domains. This talk will focus on hierarchical data visualization and network visualization and will highlight the strengths and weaknesses of these methods, techniques for gently introducing these methods to potential stakeholders, and best practices for integrating them into data driven applications.

          • "F**k It, Ship It"

          • Before you complete any project that you really care about and show it to the world, you’ll likely be plagued by self-doubt. Will others understand it? Is it missing anything? Can you make it better somehow? At some point, you have to just say "Fuck it, ship it."

            • Spatial History Project

            • Budapest was one of around 150 towns and cities in Hungary where Jews were restricted to urban ghettos in the spring and early summer of 1944, and just one of hundreds of towns and cities across occupied Europe where ghettos were created. The process of ghettoization was profoundly spatial where perpetrators explicitly used tools of concentration, and segregation to carry out their objectives.

              • Elijah’s new personal website

              • Elijah Meeks is a senior data visualization engineer at Netflix where he helps understand how people experience Netflix.

                • Minimum viable product - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                • In product development, the minimum viable product (MVP) is the product with the highest return on investment versus risk.

                  • Thank you for listening –– @Elijah_Meeks, @jaheppler, @pfzenke.

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