Elijah Meeks

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I've spent over a decade doing data visualization in academia and industry. My work has…

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  • A virtual water network of the Roman world

    Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

    The Romans were perhaps the most impressive exponents of water resource management in preindustrial times with irrigation and virtual water trade facilitating unprecedented urbanization and socioeconomic stability for hundreds of years in a region of highly variable climate. To understand Roman water resource management in response to urbanization and climate variability, a Virtual Water Network of the Roman World was developed. Using this network we find that irrigation and virtual water trade…

    The Romans were perhaps the most impressive exponents of water resource management in preindustrial times with irrigation and virtual water trade facilitating unprecedented urbanization and socioeconomic stability for hundreds of years in a region of highly variable climate. To understand Roman water resource management in response to urbanization and climate variability, a Virtual Water Network of the Roman World was developed. Using this network we find that irrigation and virtual water trade increased Roman resilience to interannual climate variability. However, urbanization arising from virtual water trade likely pushed the Empire closer to the boundary of its water resources, led to an increase in import costs, and eroded its resilience to climate variability in the long term. In addition to improving our understanding of Roman water resource management, our cost–distance-based analysis illuminates how increases in import costs arising from climatic and population pressures are likely to be distributed in the future global virtual water network.

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  • D3.js in Action

    Manning Publications

    A deep exploration of how to use d3.js for creating charts, network visualization, maps, DOM interactivity and reusable components. This includes a whole chapter devoted to network visualization and another whole chapter devoted to geospatial information visualization (or web mapping, but you can do so much more than traditional web mapping with D3) as well as chapters about creating your own layouts and using the most popular and some of the most complicated layouts available with d3.js.

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Projects

  • Semiotic

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    A react charting library.

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  • How to Effectively Create Network Data Visualization in D3.js

    Slides and interactive examples and code to go along with a workshop on creating network data visualization with D3.js.

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  • Çatalhöyük Living Archive Network Studies

    This project consists of three separate sub-projects as well as an accompanying paper. Two of the sub-projects are interactive network visualizations: one is focused on the social network of archaeologists over a 20 year period at the Çatalhöyük dig. The second looks at the connection between documents based on topic signature from LDA topic modeling. Along with these network visualizations is a visualization of the topics from that topic model using word clouds and spark lines. All the…

    This project consists of three separate sub-projects as well as an accompanying paper. Two of the sub-projects are interactive network visualizations: one is focused on the social network of archaeologists over a 20 year period at the Çatalhöyük dig. The second looks at the connection between documents based on topic signature from LDA topic modeling. Along with these network visualizations is a visualization of the topics from that topic model using word clouds and spark lines. All the visualizations were written using D3.js.

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  • ORBIS

    An interactive scholarly work that models movement of people and goods in the Roman Empire.

    I was lead developer and wrote the database functions and front end interactive map.

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  • Kindred Britain

    An interactive scholarly work that explores the role of family in British culture.

    I was lead developer and wrote the database functions and front end interactive website.

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  • CityNature

    This is an interactive scholarly work examining the role of nature in Urban environments. I provided some support for this project, but was not the lead developer on it.

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  • Authorial London

    A flash application that explores the connections between various English language authors and London. Includes georectified historical maps and associations between person, place and text.

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  • The Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty

    Historical GIS dealing with medieval Chinese political administration. This includes modeling change in place over the course of the Northern and Southern Song. I built the entire database and data model.

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  • d3.carto.map

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    This is a mapping library built on d3.js. I'm the primary contributor and maintainer of the repo.

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  • San Francisco Bay Area DH

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    I'm the organizer of a meetup group that aims to bring together academics and industry professionals interested in digital humanities scholarship.

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Languages

  • Chinese

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