Alternative ways of data visualization in History: some research notes

Authors

  • Tiago Luís Gil Universidade de Brasília
  • Leonardo Barleta Stanford University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2015.106234

Keywords:

Data visualization, databases, graphs and diagrams

Abstract

The paper presents some theoretical and methodological inquiries about the ways in which historians produced historical scholarship, emphasizing the use of interactive graphs, dynamic maps and animations. If the object of historical research has different flows and diverse intensities, why would be the written paper the main (if not the only) mean of publishing historical knowledge? Historians have chosen, since the nineteenth century, to narrate through writing the social dynamics of the past, barely exploring alternatives ways of representation. Recently, new digital platforms have been inspiring historians and social scientists interested in the historical time to produce some groundbreaking experiments. These experiments, thus, are the object of this paper.

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Author Biographies

  • Tiago Luís Gil, Universidade de Brasília

    Doutor em História Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e professor de História do Brasil do Departamento de História do Instituto de Ciências Humanas da Universidade de Brasília (UnB). 

  • Leonardo Barleta, Stanford University

    Mestre em História pela Universidade Federal do Paraná. Doutorando em História da América Latina no Departamento de História da Escola de Humanidades e Ciências da Universidade de Stanford. Estuda dinâmicas espaciais no período colonial e humanidades digitais.

Published

2015-12-17

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Articles

How to Cite

GIL, Tiago Luís; BARLETA, Leonardo. Alternative ways of data visualization in History: some research notes. Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 173, p. 427–455, 2015. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2015.106234. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/106234.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.