Projects
Presentation1.pptxMy dissertation won the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2021) from Beta Phi Mu Honor Society and the Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award (2021) from the Association for Information Science and Technology.
Abstract: Visualization has long been recognized as an essential component of scientific research for knowledge discovery and communication. In his classic essay titled “Drawing Things Together,” Latour (1990) argued that visual inscriptions are the “immutable mobiles” in sciences, which capture the fundamental scientific discovery and information within their standardized, optically consistent structures, while at the same time, mobilize the construction and diffusion of scientific consensus with their ability to move across various contexts, especially from the laboratories to scientific publications. Empirical results from research in science and technology studies (STS) have confirmed this epistemic role of visualization and demonstrated the value of visualization as a critical indicator for the disciplinarity of scientific fields. In contrast to scientific disciplines, the values and functions of visualization in the humanities have yet to be examined empirically, despite the increasing application of visual technologies in humanities research. My dissertation offers the first thorough empirical examination of visualizations in digital humanities (DH) research using large-scale DH journal publication data and semi-structured interviews with DH practitioners, illustrating visualization's rhetorical roles in humanities knowledge communication and its impacts on the evolving dynamics of DH scholarship.
DH2022Presentation.pptxUniversity of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS)
Overview: Chinese Village Gazetteer Data Project (CCVGD) creates an open-access database of contemporary Chinese villages based on 3,000+ village gazetteers that contain a wide variety of information regarding villages' demographics, geographies, climates, education, economics, and healthcare. As a research fellow, I collaborated with the student team, librarians, and faculty advisors across departments and schools to design the CCVG database and a web interface, especially engaging in the use of visualizations in the interface.
Books of Hours Manuscripts Visualization (2019-2020)
Data Science Researcher, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania
This project was awarded the 2019 LEADS-4-NDP Fellowship ($5,000) from Drexel University.
Overview: The Book of Hours is a Christian devotional book popular in the Middle Ages. As a Data Science Researcher with the LEADS-4-NDP program, I experimented with digital methods to visualize the digitized collection of Books of Hours manuscripts indexed in BiblioPhilly, particularly the metadata; performed data cleaning, manipulation, and visualization using Tableau and Python; designed and implemented interactive data visualizations for the project.