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The essay about this in DH+Lib is out!

I talk about the workshop I ran and my somewhat failed attempt at avoiding "buttonology" as the complexity of teaching the craft recreated some of the challenges I face when I teach digital tools.

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Zine #ICYMI! 1st @dhandlib.bsky.social special issue on craft+humanities data had each article author write a companion tutorial (how to make/craft something related to their piece), gathered into a zine edited by @claudiaeberger.bsky.social: "Play with Your Data" works.hcommons.org/records/6t6a...

I was delighted writing for the previous @dhandlib.bsky.social special issue (citation justice+physical rep of nonbook works dhandlib.org?p=154321). Its articles+zine companio), & editors' intro on why analog craft overlaps so much w/DH=great read+citation. This will be well worth reading:

It's here! Our second #DHmakes special issue! So proud to have been part of this project. Make sure to check out all the amazing pieces in this issue 🤩

I love all of these! Lots of minimal pedagogy in this special issue.

Hey, that's me! Check out the cool tactile pie charts I made for this special issue on data physicalization. If you're making something physical and tactile already, why not add braille? This piece includes instructions on how to add braille even if you can't read it.

And Sarah E. Knudsen and Laura Ridenour's "Coding in Beads: Teaching Pythonic Loops with a Spiral Bracelet as a Manipulative" uses beaded bracelets to start teaching coding concepts outside of a computer

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Ruth S. Xing's "“Mnemonic Bracelets”: Physicalization of Quantified-Self Data to Encourage Mindfulness of Time-Specific Emotions and Goals" uses friendship bracelets to explore personal data over time, using both knots and beads

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Sarah Reiff Conell's "Knot your average friendship bracelet: a data spiral" gathers data about trees on campus and turned them into a knotted friendship bracelet as a way to explore local datasets in workshops

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And our FINAL section is an amazing group of articles that use friendship bracelets as their medium:

And Erica Leslie Weidner's "Invisible Stitches: A Semester at the Reference Desk, Quilted" made an English paper pieced quilt that represented a semester's worth of reference questions, making library labor more visible

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Teresa Hebron's "Toe Pick! Exploring Figure Skating Datasets Through Quilting" uses figure skating data (!!) to show how quilt blocks can be used to represent data in a quilt
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The third section features two pieces about using quilting as a way to present data:

And Jessika Davis's "Top 8 Workshop: Exploring Embodied Cognition Through Data Visceralization" shows an embodied workshop where the participants play the role of nodes in a network

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Theresa Quill and Leanne Nay's "Maps that Glow: Teaching with Paper Circuits" explores making tactile maps that light up to help illuminate (ha!) important points.
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Dr. Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Kalea Raposo's "Quilling Perspectives: Shaping Literary Analysis Through Critical Crafting Methods" shows how paper quilling can be used to represent themes and data from texts

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Halie Kerns, Ruth Carpenter, Kirsten Pagan, Amber Simpson, and Melissa Haller's "From Postcards to Pom-Poms: Expanding Data Literacy Through Visualization and Physicalization with Dear Data" takes Dear Data postcards and brings them into a 3D space
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The second section features four very different approaches to data physicalization workshop materials!

Then @kaylendwyer.bsky.social's "Weaving the Wayback Machine: Reflecting on Pedagogy, Materiality, and Digital Erasure" which uses weaving as a way to memorialize changes, and removed content, on websites

First is "Tactile Pie Charts for Print Material Accessibility Data" by @ellenforget.bsky.social which brings a HUGELY important accessibility focus to data physicalization
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The first section of this issue has two articles that feature weaving as a method for data physicalization:

Our special issue editors, Claudia Berger, Pamella R. Lach, John E. Russell, and Nancy Smith, wrote an introduction to the issue, which "features concrete ways we can integrate critical making into our (library) instruction"

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We are PLEASED to announce the publication of our latest special issue:

✨Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data✨

It is a follow up to our 2024 special issue "Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities"

#DHmakes

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PROJECT: The Drug Policy Alliance Library ← dh+lib dhandlib.org/project-the-...

POST: ManoWhisper Visualizations ← dh+lib dhandlib.org/post-manowhi...

RESOURCE: Creating a Dashboard for Interactive Data Visualization with Dash in Python ← dh+lib dhandlib.org/resource-cre...

RESOURCE: TrOCR Model for Medieval Manuscripts (12th-16th Centuries) ← dh+lib dhandlib.org/resource-tro...

EVENT: Immersive Realities in the Humanities and Intro to FrameVR for Pedagogical Applications of Public History ← dh+lib dhandlib.org/event-immers...

EVENT: Technology and Evolving Research Practices in the Humanities ← dh+lib dhandlib.org/event-techno...

CFP: Scholars’ Lab Data Art Call For Proposals ← dh+lib dhandlib.org/cfp-scholars...