Travelers Lab Presents at the Fall 2020 New England Historical Association Meetings
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…
Contextualizing COVID-19 in the NY City Region: a Comparative Approach
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…
COVID-19 in the NYC Commuting Region: A Travelers’ Lab Study
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…
Rewriting the Historical Geography of Rome with the Chronicle of Theophanes
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…
Geography and Narrative in Chronicle of Theophanes: 2018-2019 Resumé
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…
Sonification and the Datini Letter Meta-data
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…
A New GitHub Data-Set
Written by Adam Franklin-Lyons In earlier articles on this blogroll, we have written a couple of times about extracting, analyzing and organizing medieval itineraries as a source of data for doing geographic studies of medieval movement and travel (see: “Itineraries, Gazetteers, and Roads” and “Notes on the Margins“). Currently we … Continue…
Lab Meeting: Monday April 8
Our next collective gathering is Monday, April 8 during the lunch hour, 12.15-1.10. We will be in the same room as last time: Usdan 110.