Since beginning to work more with DH, I have included digital methods of organization and analysis in several history projects. While this often looks and feels more like spreadsheet management and less like history, the practices of data cleaning and visualization that I’ve learned have helped me leverage the digital humanities in other work.
Most of the work has centered around the study of Ireland including a quantitative poster project on the famine
And the copious spreadsheets that underwrote it
Which led into my senior thesis; Violence and Materiality During the Irish Rising of 1641 which made use of the 1641 depositions and even more spreadsheets to analyze and visualize the types of violence and property loss that occurred during the period.
This resulted in a number of graphs which informed my analysis.
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