Project Demonstration: conflictmetrics.com

Transparency to Visibility (T2V): Network Visualization in Humanities Research
NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, Level II

The T2V project is developing and testing new computational approaches to extracting and visualizing relationships in bodies of texts. Using a corpus of biomedical research funding disclosure statements, the T2V team is developing a toolkit that automatically extracts relationships from texts and supports a variety of data visualization options. In so doing, this project will also contribute to the ongoing development of robust humanistic inquiry into economic influences on biomedical research. More specifically, the T2V project will:

  • provide a methodological framework for visualizing complex systems (including financial networks) related to matters of humanistic and public concern.
  • allow bioethicists, health policy researchers, and medical humanities scholars to access and visualize large datasets on funding and conflicts of interest for a variety of biomedical domains.
  • develop a flexible open-source toolkit designed to support easy redeployment for a wide variety of humanities research projects.

Project Staff
S. Scott Graham (Project Director)
Department of Rhetoric & Writing, University of Texas at Austin

Dave Clark (Project Co-Director)
Responsive Writing Solutions, LLC
Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Allyssa Guzman
University of Texas Libraries, University of Texas at Austin

Zoltan Majdik
Department of Communication, North Dakota State University

Paul Toprac
Simulation and Game Applications Lab, University of Texas at Austin

Advisory Board
Casey Boyle
Digital Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin

Aaron Choate
University of Texas Libraries, University of Texas at Austin

Tanya Clement
Department of English, University of Texas at Austin

Ann Hanlon
Digital Humanities Lab, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Annie Hill
Department of Rhetoric & Writing, University of Texas at Austin

Lars Hinrichs
Department of English, University of Texas at Austin

Jenell Johnson
Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Paul Toprac
Simulation and Game Applicaitons Lab, University of Texas at Austin