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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 10.03.2016 | Humanités
As every year since 2012, the Digital Humanities Awards 2015 produced a list of resources published during 2015. 54 resources were nominated by 140 people and the result of the vote (1862 voters) was made public a few days ago. As these awards are intended to be...
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 | 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 | 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...
by Martin Grandjean | 2.07.2015 | Humanités
A journal paper has been published based on this research. Find the online version here: A social network analysis of Twitter: Mapping the digital humanities community (+ PDF + Blogpost) Twitter helps disseminate information and knowledge. This is especially true...
by Martin Grandjean | 31.05.2015 | From the web
What will be your next move? Steve Tung visualized all the chess pieces movements recorded in a database of more than 2 million games (MillionBase). The result is not entirely surprising, but it aesthetic is stirring. [threecol_one_first]...
by Martin Grandjean | 27.05.2015 | Actualités
The four-year FIFA financial strategy is based on the World Cup, his main source of income. While the arrest of seven executives led FIFA in a new crisis, this graph provides a quick and overall state of the finances of the football federation. Key: two gray circles...
by Martin Grandjean | 16.03.2015 | Humanités
Moreno’s sociograms are frequently considered as the first examples of social network analysis and visualization. Mapping the social affinities of a group of individuals, Moreno’s first sociograms visualize the relationships between pupils in a classroom:...
by Martin Grandjean | 11.02.2015 | Actualités
HSBC “Swiss Leaks” data shared by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reflect the globalization of tax evasion. While billions of dollars are inconceivable, mapping the origin of bank account holders allows an overview. This map is...
by Martin Grandjean | 8.09.2014 | Humanités
Who’s following who in the digital humanities network ? Usually at the forefront in the use of digital tools, the representatives of this area of research use Twitter to share and communicate. This post provides an outline of “friends/following”...
by Martin Grandjean | 30.07.2014 | Images
The red ball transforms the urban order. Passed through Lausanne in 2013 and a handful of other cities, the red ball was in Galway (Ireland) in July 2014. This post provides 2 x 10 pictures (+ 1 GIF) of the artwork of Kurt Perschke (@redballproject) in the streets of...
by Martin Grandjean | 31.08.2013 | Actualités
The top-secret documents recently released by Edward Snowden through the Washington Post reveal the funding of the U.S. intelligence agencies. To complete the great work of the graphic designers of the Washington Post, I propose that simple overall visualization:...