3/23-3/25 Readings and Assignments

3/23 Data Visualization I: Maps – Everyone Meet Today

EVENT: Screening of Coded Bias (all week, at your leisure). To receive the link to view the film, you must register here.

Do also register for the Q&A with the filmmaker if you can make it on March 30 at 6 pm.

We will meet virtually on BOTH Tuesday AND Thursday this week. Recordings of Tuesday’s session will be made available to those with a conflict.

Guest: Sean Thomas, PhD Candidate in Geography at OSU.

Sean will discuss his ArcGIS project “Mapping Greenwood.” He will briefly explain what ArcGIS is, how his project developed, what he hoped to achieve, and what he has discovered thus far. He will also introduce your digitization project, which involves some hand-written fire insurance records he is using to build his map.

Read:

• Hannibal Johnson, “Tulsa, Then and Now: Reflections on the Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre,” Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 40, Number 3, Summer 2020, pp. 181-185
• Tim Madigan, The Burning, “Prologue” and Chapters 1-4 (85 pp)

Optional:

• Yale University DH Lab, “Introduction to Spatial Analysis”

Comment on your peers’ blogs

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3/25 Lying with Maps — Everyone Meet Today

Guest – Kevin Dyke, Mapping and Spatial Data Librarian, OSU Edmon Low Library

Read:

• Mark Monmonier, “Introduction” to How to Lie With Maps

Examine:

• The Green Book Map, http://publicdomain.nypl.org/greenbook-map/

Blog Post 9 due by 10 am. See the course blog for the topic.