The Red Herring of Big Data

At the end of August 2013, I was honored to be invited to speak at Fresno State's Center for Creativity and the Arts as the first visiting intellectual of the academic year. I helped the Center inaugurate its 2013-2014 theme: "Data and Technology" (PDF). I had the chance to lead a workshop on Voyant, meet many … Continue reading The Red Herring of Big Data →

Assignment: The “American Century” Geospatial Timeline

For the last several years, I have been interested in representing time and space visually in the context of literature courses. During my final year as a graduate student, I was a fellow in Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching. There, I had the freedom to spend many hours exploring several web widgets for doing just … Continue reading Assignment: The “American Century” Geospatial Timeline →