"Mapping Emotions in Victorian London" ranks near the top of recent internet finds. This project is a child of the Stanford Literary Lab and used crowd-sourcing to give emotional context to varied passages citing London places.
Books + data + visualization = you could lose yourself for hours (well, not technically, since there's a map...but I think you get my point).
Showing posts with label Map. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Map. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Monday, July 6, 2009
Ode to Kansas
I am still thinking about reading maps. This morning I am sitting directly opposite a map of the United States and as I glance up periodically and read the state names, I am wondering if each of us could place the states in their appropriate location on a map as we all had to do at some point during our elementary/grammar school careers. This map is particularly nifty in that it also has a picture to note an item for which the state is widely known, excluding a few of the Northeastern states which have a tiny footprint on the map. (Likely a challenge to the artist to design miniature crabs, boats, maple trees, etc).
Going one step further, do we still know the capitals or would we instinctively say Seattle rather than Olympia influenced by a caffeine haze? I was curious to know whether I still had this ability of recall and sought an interactive map to use as a test. (Enter “Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids.”) Rhode Island was my last state to place on the non-outlined map of the U.S. My progress was respectable though I did not keep my time. No pressure to get them all correct, but I will tell you in advance that this map is geared toward young children.
Going one step further, do we still know the capitals or would we instinctively say Seattle rather than Olympia influenced by a caffeine haze? I was curious to know whether I still had this ability of recall and sought an interactive map to use as a test. (Enter “Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids.”) Rhode Island was my last state to place on the non-outlined map of the U.S. My progress was respectable though I did not keep my time. No pressure to get them all correct, but I will tell you in advance that this map is geared toward young children.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Trading the 3rd for the 4th
Knowing where you are going is really nice, but this morning I appreciated that not knowing where I would be can also be a fun journey. Today was the Fourth of July Music City 5K/10K and GBC Paige and I attended in support of GBC Kim and Tim who ran the course. We, in our haste, had neither ownership of nor had reviewed the course map so it was a bit of an adventure to follow our fellow friends around their path.
We managed to catch them just in front of the fountains over the Woodland Street bridge and view them from afar on Commerce. (The folks at Panera were slightly interrupted by chants for our fellow book-clubbers). No neon lights on Broadway, but we were happy to get in our last words of cheer before the finish line. Well done to Kim and Tim, and be on alert that you may be approached to participate as part of a team run this fall.
My advice: occasionally, don't pick up a map and see how the day unfolds.
We managed to catch them just in front of the fountains over the Woodland Street bridge and view them from afar on Commerce. (The folks at Panera were slightly interrupted by chants for our fellow book-clubbers). No neon lights on Broadway, but we were happy to get in our last words of cheer before the finish line. Well done to Kim and Tim, and be on alert that you may be approached to participate as part of a team run this fall.
My advice: occasionally, don't pick up a map and see how the day unfolds.
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