By: Diana Tran Fall 2024 Methodology ReadMe: Event Types Categorization Tagging the chronicle entry involves splitting it into different events. Events are specific instances within the text that have a clear start and end. X happened. Then Y happened, and so on. The methodology of tagging events was created … Continue…
It is Fall 2024 and the Travelers Lab is BACK in full swing. On October 10th Alex Williams presented on the CDER project as a part of the Quantitative Analysis Center’s lunch series Data Insights: Student Speaker Series with Turning Messy Historical Datasets into a Relational Database: the Constantinople Project. … Continue…
At the Fall 2020 meeting of the New England Historical Association, held virtually, members of the lab provided the papers for a panel called, “Traveling in the Middle Ages: Using Digital Methods and Spatial Analysis for Historical Research.” Chaired by Ella Howard of the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, … Continue…
Text and data visualizations by Jesse W. Torgerson; data collection by Rachel Chung (’20) and Ezra Kohn (’20); mapping by Grant van Inwegen (’20) and Jesse Simmons (’21) with assistance from Kim Diver. Please see our introductory post. The Traveler’s Lab at Wesleyan University has applied our movement-focused approach to … Continue…
Updated: April 30, 2020. Follow-up post (5/12/2020) here. by Rachel Chung, Grant van Inwegen, Ezra Kohn, Jesse Simmons, and Jesse W. Torgerson The Traveler’s Lab at Wesleyan University studies the movement of people and objects during the middle ages. Our focus on travel brings overlooked and unrecognized realities to standard … Continue…
Text by Rachel Chung (’20), Grant van Inwegen (’20), Ezra Kohn (’20), Nathan Krieger (’20), and Jonah Skolnik (’21). Mapping by Jesse Simmons (’21) and Grant van Inwegen (’20). Data visualizations by Weiliang Song (’20) with assistance from Rachel Chung (’20). This blog post presents a paper that the Theophanes … Continue…
by Nathan Krieger (Wesleyan ’20) This project, using quantitative methods to study the role of geography through the narrative of the ninth-century Chronicle of Theophanes, took some significant steps in 2018-2019. Our aim has been to analyze this text using new tools and new methodologies including MAXQDA, Recogito, and both … Continue…
Written by Adam Franklin-Lyons (History professor at Marlboro College) and Logan Davis (Research and Development Engineer at Pairity Greater Boston Area Computer Software) Which means what exactly? It’s like a visualization, but instead of something you see, it’s something you hear. Let me start with a little background… A couple … Continue…
