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CartoDB

Screenshot of CartoDB website

Demo

Radiation Readings for the Fukushima Prefecture (2011 to 2015)

Description

CartoDB is a cloud based mapping, analysis and visualization engine that lets users build spatial applications for both mobile and the web. Users input tabular data and then construct an interactive visualisation through the web interface. It provides automatic georeferencing functionality and provides APIs for mobile data collection and dissemination. Use is free for up to 5 tables. (Source)

Creator

CartoDB

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Mapping, Visualisation

Screenshots of Platform

Map view – Selecting different types of map

Data view – Selecting data range by SQL statements

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JuxtaposeJS

Screenshot of JuxtaposeJS website

Demo

Berlin 1945 und heute – Blick auf das Reichstagsgebäude (Tiergarten)

Description

JuxtaposeJS tells stories by comparing two image frames, including photos and gifs. It provides a means, by a draggable pane, to see the changes and visually analyse the differences between the two images. It’s an adaptable storytelling tool that is ideal for highlighting then/now stories that explain slow changes over time (growth of a city skyline, regrowth of a forest, etc.) or before/after stories that show the impact of single dramatic events (natural disasters, protests, wars, etc.). (Source)

Creator

Knight Lab, Northwesthern University

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Visualisation

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Juxtapose slider creator

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Leaflet

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Demo

Leaflet map with marker and popup text

Description

Leaflet is an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. It contains different well-documented mapping features, such as map controls, browser support, interaction features, animation, and customisation. (Source)

Creator

Vladimir Agafonkin, Mapbox

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Text mining, Annotation

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Leaflet.draw – Enable user to draw custom shape to highlight certain part of the map

Leaflet coding interface

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Neatline

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Demo

The Battle of Chancellorsville

Description

Neatline is a tool to tell stories with maps and timelines. It is a geotemporal exhibit-builder to create maps, image annotations, and narrative sequences from Omeka collections of archives and artifacts, and to connect your maps and narratives with timelines. (Source)

Creator

Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Mapping, Timeline, Visualisation

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Exhibit Editor – Map-based or Image-based environment configuration

Drawing Tool – Flexible annotating tool

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Palladio

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Demo

D’Alembert’s Correspondence

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Description

A platform for visualizing and analysing networks of historical data. Palladio is web-based tool that allows a user to upload structured data, graphically establish context within Palladio and then choose from a variety of innovative spatial, temporal and network visualisations to analyse and present research findings. (Source)

Creator

Humanities + Design Lab, Stanford University

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Data analysis, Mapping, Visualisation

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Create new Palladio project – Upload tabular data

Visualizing the data – Map View, coordinates data as points on a map

Visualizing the data – Gallery view, data displayed within a grid setting for quick reference.

Visualizing the data – List view, dimensions of data arranged to make customized lists.

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Silk

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Description

Silk is a platform for sites that contain collections of information. It’s like the Tumblr for websites that have structured content–like software reviews, information about designers, a site with UN datasets, and more. When you have created your site (manually or by uploading one or more datasets), you can visualize and filter your data in a few ways. You can create graphs if your pages contain numbers, maps if you have locations, and filtered tables for just about anything. These visualizations and tables are interactive: anyone can play around with the variables to get the answer they need from the data. (Source)

Creator

Silk

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Mapping, Visualisation, Digital publishing

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StoryMapJS

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Demo

Sochi 2014 Olympic torch relay highlight

Description

StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. Stories (or layer of content) can be added with large photographs, works of art, historic maps, and other image files or geo-tagged instagram images. (Source)

Creator

Knight Lab, Northwesthern University

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Mapping, Visualisation

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Edit Tool – Input data

Preview Tool

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TimelineJS

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Demo

Revolutionary User Interface (1600-2012)

Description

TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. They can be created using a Google Spreadsheet template. Media can also be from different sources, including Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Dailymotion, Google Maps, Wikipedia and SoundCloud. (Source)

Creator

Knight Lab, Northwesthern University

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Timeline, Visualisation

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Data input through Google Spreadsheet

Publishing tool

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Timemapper

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Demo

Medieval Philosophers – Timeliner by okfn

Description

TimeMapper is an open source timeline tool that takes information in a Google spreadsheet and uses it to generate a timeline that can then be published, shared, or embedded on the web. It utilizes components from other open source tools like TimelineJS and Leaflet maps. It is simple to use, but not easily customizable. (Source)

Creator

Open Knowledge Foundation Labs

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Mapping, Timeline, Visualisation

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Data input through Google Spreadsheet

Publishing Tool

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