Week 11

17 November (synchronous expert chat in Zoom)

Mapping Itineraries with Nada Ammagui

The passage in the historical, geographical work (known as Lorimer's Gazetteer) that Nada worked on can be found here. (NYU authentication required)

Homework:

Work on your itinerary dataset in Google Sheets.

Now would also be a good time to think about what kind of a story you would like to tell about your itinerary in Story Maps.

Refer back to the critical texts listed in the beginning of Week 9 for ideas that you would like to address in the work:

For some historical background, see this short introduction.
For more about Doughty, see this chapter or this book.
For more information about Stark, see this chapter or this book.
For the Indian Ocean slave trade mentioned in Heude, see this article.
For more about Thomas, see this chapter.

19 November (synchronous class)

We will discuss the concept of a storyboard and how we might conceive of a StoryMap using the storyboard concept.

We will also walk through the steps of making your sequential stops in the travel narrative into a shortest-path itinerary mappable in ArcGIS online.

We will be working with this dataset as an example. Here is the map in ArcGIS with the itinerary.

There will be an accompanying video / writeup on the itinerary generation here.

There is no Quick Writing Week 11.

Blog 4 (due 1200, 9 Dec)

Blog 4 requires you to transfer your knowledge from what you have learned this semester. Please write a letter to an older person in your family in which you explain in plain, non-technical language what you learned this semester and how it is important to you (and to them, to your country, etc).

Here are some ideas of topics you could address in your letter (you do not need to discuss them all): What is the spatial data gap? How might it impact the places in the world you know? What is data literacy and what does it have to do with this course? What is data storytelling? What is a story map? How difficult or easy is is it to create and publish data stories? What kinds of skills have you had to learn this semester? How do you feel about the datafication of human space? of human life?

If you would like to include anything in your final blog (pictures, hand written notes in any language, drawings), feel free, provided that it gets across the point.