Supported Projects
The theme for the academic year 2019-2020 is data visualization based on community networks. VUE supported two additional projects projects:
Project 1:
Title: "Business of Debt"
PI:Destin Jenkins, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of History
Description: The Business of Debt project complements and expands upon a book manuscript, The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City (University of Chicago Press, Forthcoming) by Professor Destin Jenkins. The RCC is developing a website featuring a fully interactive map visualization from data for six decades (1931-1981) from bond buyers directories provided by the PI. The maps will display the firms of the nation’s bond traders in every city and every state where the data are available. This map will list financial institutions, addresses for Chicago, New York, and San Francisco (for 1931 only). All additional periods (1941-1981) will include a city level identifier for each bond buyer and the associated branch affiliates. Additionally, an evolving network of bond traders’ branches across different cities in the time horizon will be visualized.
Project 2:
Title: "Burning the Future: Carbon Capture and Storage and Energy Engineering in Eastern Australia"
PI: Mallory James, Graduate Student in Anthropology under the supervision of Joseph Masco
Superviser: Joseph P. Masco, Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College, Department Chair
Description: Graduate student Mallory James's project would like to address:1) If or how awareness of the societies on environmental issues can be seen through the evolution of the accreditation records of engineering programs in Australia? 2) By looking at the publications of the journal, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, from its conception (1994-2019), if or how discourse between carbon capture and storage “camps” and its evolution over time can be characterized? Furthermore, by analyzing the keywords and authors and their citation network, can we show the evolution and separation of the two camps? In support of this project , the RCC , through the VUE project, will interactive plots based on the historical accreditation records of the engineering programs in Australia and a set of visualizations based on the data on authors, keywords, and abstracts from the International Journal of Greenhouse Gases to characterize the contents, the authors’ networks, and their temporal evolutions. This visualizations are designed to provide further evidence supporting earlier ethnographic findings by Ms. James.