geospatial analysis

Last month over 7,000 geographers and geographically-minded scholars came to Chicago for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Among the scores of panels, posters, and demonstrations of digital tools coming from companies like Google and ESRI were several sessions centered on the GeoHumanities. As an historian who is using geospatial techniques in a dissertation on US-Indian relations, I went to present ongoing work. I’m glad I did.

Geospatial analysis, traditionally utilized in fields such as city planning, geography, and the environmental sciences, has been widely adopted as a digital humanities method.  Over the next few weeks, there will be numerous opportunities to receive discipline-specific perspectives on geospatial analysis and undertake some foundational training in these methods.

Spring training is getting underway at D-Lab next week.  Take advantage of beginner-friendly intensives or explore a variety of data analysis packages in R.  Subscribe to the digital humanities mailing list for a weekly reminder of upcoming training.  

Intensives