Spatial Humanity Projects

utilize GIS technology to explain all sorts of research questions related to humanity subjects. A recent NY times article talks about the new field of spatial humanities and their spatial projects. Please click on the following projects for the details.

*The various digital mapmakers projects at UVA
*Animated Atlas of African History(for economic and demographic trends, violent conflicts, and changing the territory names from 1879 and 2002)at Brown.
*Plejades (historical geographic information about the Greek and Roman World)
*Maps on Globalization and trade at Princeton.
*Digital music project at Stanford (mapping musical notes in cognitive space).
*Maps about Vietnames sidewalk life at MIT.

The article also includes a step by step tutorials page on "how to use the new tools and resources for teaching and scholarly work"

Geo Data Visualization--THATcamp

Those who missed the presentation provided by Mano Marks, Senior Geo Developer Advocate at Google, from a THATcamp workshop organized by the Center for History and New Media at Mason on Friday, 6/3, here is the URL for the presentation:http://goo.gl/GLQiB.

Now you can create,import, and share you data tables and visualize them on Google with a simple tool such as Google Fusion Tables.

You can find the tutorial of Fusion Tables and Maps and other useful Google development posted by Mano Marks from here: http://twitter.com/#!/ManoMarks.

Video Tutoral: Working with Census Data in GIS

Mason Libaries Government Document unit has recently developed a video tutorial on how to work with Census Data and ArcGIS. A basic, five part of this tutorial contains
1. Acquiring Data
2. Working in Excel
3. Converting With Access
4. Mapping with ArcGIS
5. Presenting Data

See the website at
**http://library.gmu.edu/education/students/tutorials.html

**http://infoguides.gmu.edu/content.php?pid=11647&sid=736431


Any comments and suggestions are welcome to improve it better. I also hope you can integrate this into your classroom environment.