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Open source graph visualization and manipulation software. Emma Rothschild is the resident expert on its application to historical research. "Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs."

Open access tool for visualizing and mapping data.

Free Data Visualization Software with perhaps the best slogan of the digital age: "Data in. Brilliance out."

Data visualization platform from IBM

Excellent usage guide, with visuals Source: Digitally Enhanced

This course will explore the current and potential impact of digital media on the theory and practice of history. We will focus on how digital tools and resources are enabling new methods for analysis in traditional print scholarship and the possibilities for new forms of scholarship. For the former, we will explore tools for text analysis and visualization as well as work on interpreting new media forms as primary sources. For the latter, we will explore a range of production of new media history resources, including both practical work on project management and design. As part of this process we will read a range of works on designing, interpreting and understanding digital media. Beyond course readings we will also critically engage a range of digital tools and resources.

IBM project

The Spatial History Lab at Stanford University is a place for a collaborative community of scholars to engage in creative visual analysis to further research in the field of history.

"Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. "

This project maps the largest slave insurrection in the eighteenth-century British Empire, commonly called "Tacky's Revolt." It was developed in collaboration with Axis Maps, leading producers of animated cartography for the web.