Week 5: Branching Out
I’m behind! on this week’s topic “branching out”.
I think for me this means extending my skill set. I know how to search and what/where to find things, For some lines I have traced documents as far as I can, online. and at the moment travel is not possible, due to time, and global pandemic! but know I am thinking in terms of how best to share my findings such as they are, in a a more data science-y way. Learning about how to develop social networking analysis and GIS mapping of things and people. I am looking at was to share these datasets that i meaningful and useful for others. So, in the past I have created timeline and simple mappings, now I am looking to use Gephi to visualise a social network. The first step is deciding how to set up the nodes and attributes, then think about relationships.
I am concerned about reinforcing stereotypes and old modes of thinking because Heads of Households are men, and most often landowners are men, so many family nodes will be centred on the father. Also male or female are the only options for gender attributes. and How will I handle bigamy, adopted children step families and other interesting aspects? I hope that the data visualzation can shed new insight and not tell a tired tale.