[One-off job, remote] Data visualization opportunity on LGBTQ exile writers research project, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Robbins, Benjamin
I’m looking for a business or individual independent contractor with experience in data visualization to a produce a range of visualizations as a one-off assignment for a digital humanities research project titled “Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ Exile Writers from 1900 to 1969.” The project is being carried out within the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. The business or contractor will be tasked with producing a range of visualizations from the project’s Airtable relational database. The database contains information on connections between a broad spectrum of LGBTQ exile writers, specifically on their physical meetings and creative exchanges.
The business or contractor chosen to produce the visualizations should present them on an open-access interactive website, which should be synced with the project data so that it dynamically updates through Airtable’s APIs and integration services, such as Zapier or Sync Inc, as the data sets expand:
https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/360053288793-Airtable-integration-options
https://syncinc.so/?utm_source=airtable&utm_medium=community_post&utm_campaign=show_and_tell
I am interested in the following types of visualization:
· Mapping of meetings between writers and their migration patterns
based on geographical coordinates contained in the database (GIS)
· Parallel-axis displays that show the degrees of separation between writers
· Bipartite graphs that show connections between locations and writers
· Force-directed graphs that show all the connections between writers
The visualizations will be developed in conversation with the business or contractor chosen to produce them, who will also advise on the most effective network visualizations to present the information contained in the database. The work is to be completed from June to August 2021.
For more information about the job and application process, please contact me directly at Benjamin.Robbins [ at ] uibk.ac.at
Dr. Benjamin Robbins, Assistant Professor in American Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Innsbruck