by Martin Grandjean | 2.02.2023 | Featured
The League of Nations marks a turning point in the history of international relations in that it is the first model of a “world parliament”. But who paid for it? The member states contributed according to their economic capacity and their political will....
by Martin Grandjean | 14.07.2021 | Humanités
Introduction to Social Network Analysis: Basics and Historical Specificities Martin Grandjean Workshop HNR+ResHist Conference 2021 This video series, intended for a beginner audience, proposes to review the main concepts of social network analysis (terminology, visual...
by Martin Grandjean | 23.12.2020 | Humanités
The four Gospels tell a broadly similar story but have slightly different structures: their constitution has been one of the most studied subjects for centuries. Without revolutionizing a field of research consisting in the careful study of these texts, network...
by Martin Grandjean | 19.11.2020 | Humanités
Using Network Analysis to Question the Concepts of Centrality and Periphery in Complex Historical Structures Keynote lecture “Cultural Organizations: Between the Local and the Global (1880s-1960s)” November 18 2020, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona Martin...
by Martin Grandjean | 10.09.2020 | Actualités
[twocol_one_first] About these visualizations The investigative teams of Public Eye and Unearthed worked for months to compile the “export notifications” from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and national administrations. This data is imperfect because...
by Martin Grandjean | 4.12.2019 | Humanités
[fivecol_three_first] MAPPING INTERNATIONALISM Data collection In a world today accustomed to multilateralism, where a “world parliament” – the United Nations Assembly – deals with all issues requiring international...
by Martin Grandjean | 20.10.2019 | Actualités
Les élections fédérales 2019 voient la progression massive des partis verts (Parti écologiste suisse et Parti vert-libéral) au détriment des principales formations de gouvernement. Or, au-delà d’un résultat 2019 remarquable que la plupart des observateurs...
by Martin Grandjean | 19.02.2019 | Featured
Summary Created in 1922, the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) is a committee bringing together leading scientists such as Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, Marie Sklodowska-Curie and Hendrik Lorentz. First constituted as a consultative body,...
by Martin Grandjean | 30.10.2017 | Humanités
HISTORICAL “NETWORKS” Confronted with the massification of data and embracing ever more global questions, the history of international organizations is concerned with increasingly complex objects. And if the term “network” is widely used in...
by Martin Grandjean | 21.08.2017 | Humanités
[fivecol_three_first] INTRODUCTION In Switzerland, the panorama of scientific research is deemed to be deeply affected by language barriers and strong local academic identities. Is this impression confirmed by data on research projects? What are the factors that best...
by Martin Grandjean | 17.06.2016 | Actualités
More Americans have died from guns in the U.S. since the beginning of the 21st century than in Korean War and Vietnam Conflict: 164,089 homicides with a firearm in the United States between 2001-2014 vs. 94,794 deaths at war during those two conflicts. Including...
by Martin Grandjean | 26.05.2016 | Actualités
[twocol_one_first] People travel not just more frequently, but increasingly far and quickly. Mapping the connections between all the airports worldwide is a fascinating network visualization exercise. A network, in its very essence, is already a map. And the global...
by Martin Grandjean | 9.05.2016 | Humanités
[threecol_one_first]ABSTRACT Defining digital humanities might be an endless debate if we stick to the discussion about the boundaries of this concept as an academic “discipline”. In an attempt to concretely identify this field and its actors, this paper shows that it...
by Martin Grandjean | 28.04.2016 | Actualités
The creation of a list of intangible cultural elements to preserve (ICH, UNESCO) should be understood as a kind of reaction to the vast World Heritage List (WHC, UNESCO), highly politicized “wonders of the world” directory. For many reasons, related to the...
by Martin Grandjean | 12.01.2016 | Actualités
La Suisse a exporté pour près de 1.4 milliards de francs de matériel militaire en 2014. Mais si le “matériel de guerre” à proprement parler totalise 40.6% de cette somme (563.5 mio), la majorité des exportations de matériel militaire est classée par le...
by Martin Grandjean | 23.12.2015 | Humanités
Are Shakespeare’s tragedies all structured in the same way? Are the characters rather isolated, grouped, all connected? Narration, even fictional, contains a network of interacting characters. Constituting a well defined corpus, the eleven Shakespearean...
by Martin Grandjean | 15.12.2015 | From the web
May the network be with you! Evelina Gabasova (evelinag.com/@evelgab) extracted social networks from the 6 Star Wars movies and analyzed them considering that two characters were connected if they spoke in the same scene. The result is quite conventional, but the...
by Martin Grandjean | 9.12.2015 | Société
Wikipédia, l’encyclopédie participative en ligne, figure systématiquement dans les 3 premiers résultats des moteurs de recherche lorsqu’un internaute y cherche des informations sur une personnalité politique suisse. Alors que Google Trends montre que les...
by Martin Grandjean | 24.10.2015 | Société
La Suisse est reconnue pour sa stabilité économique et politique, une réputation que l’analyse de la représentation des partis politiques au conseil national ne vient pas contredire. Au contraire, quand bien même presque chaque renouvellement du Parlement est...
by Martin Grandjean | 14.10.2015 | Featured
Network Analysis and visualization appears to be an interesting tool to give the researcher the ability to see its data from a new angle. Because Gephi is an easy access and powerful network analysis tool, we propose a tutorial designed to allow everyone to make his...
by Martin Grandjean | 5.10.2015 | Actualités
More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history. Each year, the number of firearm-related deaths reach almost the equivalent of U.S. casualties in Korean War. ► 2016 New version available!...
by Martin Grandjean | 11.09.2015 | Humanités
[fivecol_three_first]ABSTRACT L’utilisation de la visualisation de données en histoire engendre des réactions contradictoires : alors que certains sont fascinés par son potentiel heuristique à en oublier leur sens critique, d’autres rejettent par principe ces...
by Martin Grandjean | 9.09.2015 | Humanités
A long time ago, in a galaxy (not so) far away… migrants were fleeing Europe! In the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Europeans left their continent to find a better (?) life in the Americas and in the colonies. Based on 1858 data, the map of Charles...
by Martin Grandjean | 1.09.2015 | Actualités
What are the most worrying threats in 2015? ISIS, Iran’s nuclear program, climate change or economic instability? The following charts visualize the results of a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in Spring 2015 with 45,000 persons from 40 different...
