Schedule

Introduction, requirements, syllabus, methodologies

Beyond Way-finding: Maps as narrative and interpretative tools | Maps for social justice

Placing Segregation, Tennessee's Black Neighborhoods, Redlining in New Deal America, Palestine Open Maps, Torn Apart, Beirut Port Explosion Swipe Map, Finding Tovaangar

Materials: Prunel-Joyeux, “Do Maps Lie?” (Artl@s) (3 pages) | Krupar, Map Power and Map Methodologies for Social Justice (11 pages)

Watch: Do Maps Lie? | Video guidance for Google Sites here and here.

Visualization, Mapping environments, Making our first map.

Zotero - very first intro

Please register the address of your Google site here.

Materials: Geospatial Revolution Episodes 1-5 (1-4 are a bit dated from 2011, but still interesting; each episode is about 15-20 minutes) TW: the new part 5 about COVID mapping contains mentions of death and burial| BBC 4 “The Digital Human: Maps” (starts 1:20, 30 mins)

Create: an account at OpenStreetMap

Skim: What are the CSV / JSON / geoJSON formats? What is the KML format? UMap Guide

Mapping Datasets: UAE fortifications (Wikipedia), Baqalas of Abu Dhabi (Wrisley), Race Film Database (UCLA), Five Star Hotels in Abu Dhabi (Mokhtar), Hotel Apartments in Abu Dhabi (AD government), Bangalore Neighborhoods (Kaggle), BLM protests: Evidence that Police-Caused Deaths Predict Protest Activity (Trump et al), Places of Worship in New Orleans (Louisiana) 1941, Largest Cities in the World (Wikipedia/ElKhatib), Main Cities of the UAE (Wikipedia/Wrisley)

UMap (fr | de | co) | GeoCode | UMap tutorial (20 mins, ElKhatib)

Response 1 (on your site) - see rubric and guidelines (due 10-20 September) What are the main reasons to make a map? What are the benefits and potential drawbacks? How does data make its way onto a map? What potential do maps of social and cultural life have? Add your favorite article/site about why we map to our group Zotero and link it to your response.

Prepare: We will be talking about "spatial humanities" projects next week. Look through the choices (under materials next week) and pick one to work on with a partner. You can register your choice here.

"Spatial Humanities": Thick mapping | Deep mapping | Participatory Mapping

Skim: "Building the Invisible College" (ch 4, Crymble)

Create: an account at Zotero. Add your zotero user name here.

Download: the Zotero standalone client & the browser connector here.

Discuss: Thinking about Crymble's notion of the "invisible college" what would you like to learn how to do that university is not currently teaching you? (Tuesday)

Project Presentations (Thursday) - pre-recorded video or in class (max 5 minutes)

Projects to choose from: Slave Revolt in Jamaica | The Confederate Streets of South Carolina | Authorial London | Las Calles de las Chicas (in Spanish and English)| LOTR Map | Soviet military mapping of the world | Queering the Map | OpenGulf maps | Black Belt Brooklyn | The Social Maps of Port Said | Panorama: An Atlas of US History | Mapping the Mahjar | MapLesotho | Mapping Emotions in Victorian London | Mapping Shakespeare’s Plays | Going to the Show | Mozart, Marx and a Dictator | Listening to the Iraqis in NYC | HarassMap Arab World | HarassMap Mumbai | Amerasia: An Inquiry into Early Modern Imaginative Geography | Mapping Amazon | Greening of Sir Bani Yas | Brussels Soundmap | Icelandic Saga Map | New Orleans Prohibition Raids | Musqueam Place Name Map | Enslaved by the Church, Sold for the Republic | Freya Stark: The Southern Gates of Arabia | Mapping Mount Everest | Mapping Gothic France | Layers of London | In and of the Syrian Community | Dibujando el mapa de las desigualdades sociales durante la pandemia | Itineraires des voyageurs [Reiseverläufe] (in French or German) | The Culture and Communities Mapping Project | Drone Wars | An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 US Election | Smell Map Amsterdam | Mapping Philippine Material Culture | The Negro Motorist Green Book | Mapping the Gay Guides | Tejiendo la ciudad | Detroitography

Response 2 - Take your project presentation and make it into a response on your site. You can include your slides if you like or reuse them as static visuals. (due 17-28 September)

Add the project you reviewed to Zotero. How well do the metadata transfer?

Open Map Data and its Gaps: OSM | HOTOSM | OVERPASS API

Remaining presentation

Discussion: "Building the Invisible College" (Crymble)

Materials: Visualizing Wikipedia edits| Maps as "live" objects| OSM map features | OSM Analytics | Twelve Yale-NUS students participate in Inaugural Mapathon (The Octant) | "Participatory Mapping" (Mapping for Rights) | "Participatory Mapping" (Healthy Urbanism) | HOT activates Pidie Earthquake Tasking Manager

Read: Why would you use OSM is there is Google? | Inside the 'Wikipedia of Maps', Tensions Grow Over Corporate Influence (Bloomberg)

Code: Overpass API

Watch: Extracting Data from OSM Using the Overpass API (9 mins)

Exercises OSM: Armchair Mapping (Tues), Overpass API (Thurs)

Assignment 1: (due 24 - 10 Oct) see rubric, see detailed assignment instructions In assignment 1 you will be assessing a "data gap" somewhere in the world that you know well.

Zotero: Making a folder for OSM Humanitarian

Learning to add a map to Wikipedia

OVERPASS API to UMAP (trial with instructions for Assignment 1) (Tues)

office=diplomatic | historic = archaeological_site

Working from lists of addresses or locations: Geocoding with Awesome Table (Tues)

Incorporating the Spatial into Coding with an IDE | Geocoding with Nominatim (Thurs)

Analyzing Data of Performance | Point to Point maps | RStudio

Watch: Cartography (a performance at NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center) - 1 hour 42 minutes. Pay close attention to 55:00- (the map making moment) and 1:05- (the Q&A).

Read about the event here and the creators, artist Kaneza Schaal and writer Christopher Myers. On Tuesday we will be having a discussion about the performance and its relationship to visualization and storytelling with maps.

Sign up: RStudio Cloud free account. Register your email you used here.

Watch: Introduction to RStudio Cloud (6 mins)| RStudio for the Total Beginner (6 mins) | Learning the RStudio Cloud Environment (10 mins) -- this video was created for another class, but is still rather general. Here is a short video explaining how to connect the Sheets to the notebook.

Discussion of Cartography and trying RMarkdown notebooks (Thursday)

Virtual meeting Cheyanne from "Cartography" - synchronous Zoom (Tues)

For the zoom session, use the notebook in RStudio.cloud and at least one of the datasets and explore the visual. Prepare 2 questions for Cheyanne. Put the questions and the image(s) on your course site. Here is a short video explaining how to connect the Sheets to the notebook.

Working more with the data and discussion (Thurs)

Notebook: Cartography point to point

Prepare: We will be talking about storymaps next week. Look through the choices (under materials next week) and pick one to work on with a partner. You can register your choice here.

Zotero: Making a folder for favorite storymaps

Watch: "A Summer at the Goulette" (1996, Boughedir) for discussion (Tues)

Read: "Why are there no Middle Easterners in the Maghrib?" (Rouighi) - in DRIVE (Tues)

AGOL & Storymaps (Thurs)

Check out some of these story maps at the ESRI story map gallery. How do they balance telling a story with the map with telling a story with words?

Here is a selection from the gallery above (but feel free to browse for yourself):

The Edges of (all) Life

The River Roads of India

Transforming Lives: Ascend West and Central Africa

In and of the Syrian Community

Black Belt Brooklyn

Infectious Diseases in the Adriatic Commune of Dubrovnic

Prepare: We will begin our project-based learning next week. Check out some information about the place we will travel back in time to.

Response 3 : (draft, not finished) In this response, you should use the R Markdown notebook with the data from Cartography and speak about the visualizations you are able to produce with it. Feel free to include anything which came up in the conversation with the technical producer of the show as well as images or clips from the show. With this response, I would like you to change the permissions of your site from NYU only to public. If you have included personal information on the site you would not like the world to see, now is the time to anonymize that (due 20 Nov)

Introducing Final Project "Exploring Historical Tunis"

Explore: MapCarta| Take a walk around the city in Google Street View and jot down some observations

Watch: Tunisia 1961 (Horner) (Tues) What are the cities visited here? What is the perspective of the narrator? Exploring Tunis (Youtube)

Download: QGIS (choose the "long term version [most stable]")

Hands on: Georeferencing a historical map of Tunis using QGIS (Tues)

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Explore: NYC Space-Time | Venice Time Machine | Layers of London (Thurs)

Materials: the British Library map of georeferenced maps | maps of Mumbai, Abu Dhabi, Tunis

Examine: Map1, Map2, Map3, Map4, Map 5 (1878), Map 6 (1882) (the key to the numbers on this map are on page 236 of this book or in our shared drive)

Hands on: Comparing georeferenced maps (Thurs)

Telephone directories in the spotlight:

Working with 1961 Tunis telephone directory

Digital collections for Tunis in 1950-1960s (Tuesday's guest in person participant, Sarra Ghodbane)

Abu Dhabi Calling! (guest speaker via Zoom in class- Iván Budnik)

Watch: A (brief!) introduction to OCR in Digital Humanities (Thurs)

Discussion: Brainstorming for a topic | Workflows

Assignment 2: Pick two historical maps of Tunis, download them as tiff files from the shared drive, and overlay them in QGIS. The "geotiff" files will be available in the shared Drive. Makes a series of observations about what has changed, and what the map makers seemed to care most about. You might pay attention to street names, neighborhood names, building markers, transport lines, etc. (due 30 Nov) An interesting reference point is this map where the Arabic has been transliterated. See more detailed instructions in the guidelines.

What is data of the colonial?

Read: Memmi "Does the colonial exist?" (1957), espec pp 13-end; Fanon "First Truths on the Colonial Problem" (1958) (In Drive)

Discuss: Scoping & managing projects - making a project plan, choosing a partner (Tues)

Brainstorming & Storyboarding with data and storymaps (Tues & Thurs)

readings and chosen excerpts from "A Summer in La Goulette" (Thurs) / discussion of Memmi & Fanon (Thurs)

Sample project pathways : see guidelines (Thurs)

Mini-presentations by volunteer groups for feedback (have visuals ready for class)

Lab work

Peer Review and Instructor Feedback | Lab work

in lieu of 9 Dec's class, 50 minute drop in zoom office hours will be held at the following times at the usual class zoom address :

• Friday 10 Dec, 2100 GST

• Saturday 11 Dec, 1130 GST

• Sunday 12 Dec, 1700 GST
  

In class we will have a final, wrap up Zoom discussion of projects with any additional feedback for you to complete your project.

Final project due: 16 December ; see rubric

Response 4: a letter home to someone in your family who is not technically minded. Use very easy to understand non-technical language. This letter home can be written in the language of your choice. If it is in a language I do not know and handwritten, please provide a rough translation. (due 16 December)