The Digital Projects Studio is part of the University of Michigan's Clark Library. We
provide tutorials and support for visualization work. Connect to our workshops and projects
below, or peruse our blog for additional information.
Tutorials
arc_gis
Introductory resources for learning GIS with ArcGIS Desktop.
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complex_mapping
A workshop on creating maps in ArcGIS from complex and multivariable datasets.
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cytoscape
A workshop for network analysis using the free and open source software Cytoscape.
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datavis_r
An introductory workshop to data visualization using R.
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dotmap_workshop
Files accompanying the Geographical data and parallel computer with R and Python workshop jointly offered...
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mapping_R
This tutorial walks through three examples demonstrating how geospatial data can be manipulated and visualized in R.
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techandtexts
An open seminar hosted by the UMich Library to explore the technology and theory behind data visualization.
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textmining
A workshop introducing basic text mining techniques using R and the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer.
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webmapping
A tutorial for open source web mapping using Leaflet and the New York Public Library’s mapwarper.
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soms
A tutorial on creating self-organizing maps in R.
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web_network_visualization
By using d3.js, we have visualized the family tree network of lager and ale with interactions that help the audience understand the relationships more. Out o...
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time_filter_map
One of our clients had data about a group of UMich students' residential in Ann Arbor for decades. From this project, we deliever this tutorial with source c...
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bibliometric_networks
Networks can provide significant measures to identify data driven patterns and dependencies. We will use a bibliographic data file to create an interactive n...
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tidyverse_and_ggplot2
A tutorial on how to manipulate and visualize data easily in R
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aframe-NCAAB
Query data of the 2017-2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament bracket and visualize it in VR environment by A-Frame
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banana-project
An introductory workshop to Plotly - in Python and R - using a dataset about bananas
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Projects
crawling_noise
Using SuperCollider to generate music from web crawling data.
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csv_map
A project for creating easily reusable and updatable choropleth maps from simple datasets.
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debate_analysis
Using sentiment analysis to visualize the intensity of emotions and opinions expressed in the 2016 primary debates.
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Lidar_classification
Classifying 3-d objects (specifically, buildings) using LIDAR point cloud source data.
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network_study
A usability study of network layout techniques investigating what makes network structures easily understandable.
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typesetting
In the days of the letterpress, printing blocks of text required letters (often cast in metal) to be arranged in the necessary sequence. This program is desi...
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derrida
The Princeton University Library (PUL) houses Derrida’s Margins, a website and online research tool for the annotations of Jacques Derrida. We used data coll...
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Default photos come from U.S. National Archives' flickr photo album titled
"Taking the 1940's census." These images depict a long standing tradition of collecting and processing large amounts of data–perhaps we can consider it the origin of big data!