For a historian, digital scholarship often involved small projects such as developing charts, graphs, or maps to emphasize particular components of a historian's work. Not only does the inclusion of a visual amid text highlight the importance of a particular point but those different forms of data visualization assist in communicating the relationship between different kinds of data. A chart can, for example, visually lay out the increase in migration to the United States from Ireland over the course of the 19th century while a map can underscore the importance of space to an argument.
This landing page provides information on and samples of different kinds of data visualizations historians frequently used. For more, see the Digital Scholarship team.
Charts and graphs are particularly useful in exemplifying the relationship between different kinds of data, including demographic. Possibilities include:
Cartographic visualizations convey the relationship of different kinds of data to space. Types include:
Network visualizations emphasize the relationships between different people and/or institutions. Possibilities include:
Many historians use different programs to run Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on their sources.
Timelines and storyboards emphasize change overtime as a narrative, highlighting events and people in chronological order. Examples include:
