The first sample DH project I chose was “selfiecity.” The DH project takes a look at people taking selfies and its goal is to find common themes and trends throughout the images. The primary focus of it is visualization because it used imageplots to display the thousands of pictures to reveal the results of the findings. The study categorizes the pictures into what types of people take selfies, what their poses are, and what their expressions are. It compared people taking selfies in numerous cities worldwide and then further compared gender and age. Crowdsourcing was a secondary approach used on “selfiecity” because 3200 photos were used to determine and reveal the patterns. The visualization method fits perfectly with this scholarly subject matter because photos, something visual, were being analyzed, so it makes sense that the results were displayed visually. Since this project takes the selfies of individuals from numerous different countries into consideration, displaying the results visually make it easier for everyone involved to understand the results. It helps eliminate the language barrier that could occur if it was displayed in a different manner.
The Mapping of the Republic of Letters uses data visualization to understand the correspondence of networks. When specifically looking at Voltaire, visualization is used to see his correspondence and to understand his connections to certain people and places. The method used fits with the subject matter because looking at letters and other historical archives used in this process makes the connections very clear and easy to see where his ties are to. A map is used to connect the countries which is best for understanding this specific type of information because the study is discussing the ties between countries all over the world. Those looking at the work will immediately be able to tell where most of the communication took place.
Hailey Zimmerman is a sophomore finance major at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. She is from Darien, CT.
Bentham invites the public, specifically anyone interested, to access and transcribe Bentham’s work. The project doesn’t have a sole contributor, but rather many. This method allows for more transcriptions to become available in a shorter amount of time, simply because so many people are able to 
put on a platform for others to access. In this way, a once single non-digital copy of Bentham’s work becomes available for people to access infinitely digitally. This project seems to be very similar to our work with the Moravian Lives project in the way that we both will be transcribing manuscripts for others to access.
assembles them in a way that onlookers are able to see patterns between the images. Selfiecity uses “imageplots” which places the selfies on top of each other so that they oriented the same way. In the case of Selfiecity, the medium of the subject
matter largely determined the way in which the data was represented digitally. Selfiecity’s data was made up of images, so using a visualization approach was an obvious choice. Using visualization allowed Selfiecity to establish patterns between the selfies more easily and made their findings more apparent to others.