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Category: Revealing Data

A series highlighting the diversity of data in the NLM historical collections from a variety of perspectives.

Detail of a chart of incidents of illness or death by disease among soldiers in Europe and the U.S.

Revealing Data: American Soldiers and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

November 8, 2024 benrichardson015cf3c356 Collections, Guests, Rare Books & Journals, Revealing Data Leave a comment

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dr. E. Thomas Ewing, who discusses the efforts of his students at Virginia Tech to

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A line chart showing variation of topic proportions from 1974 to 2001

Revealing Data: Navigating Historical Biomedical Technology Research with Digital Humanities

March 28, 2024 Circulating Now Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, Guests, Revealing Data Leave a comment

By Brice Bowrey ~ Historians must sometimes grapple with deafening silence in the archival record. They can just as easily

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Revealing Data: Visualizations in Historical Collections

July 13, 2023 Circulating Now Collections, Revealing Data One comment

By Adam Korengold ~ Data visualization is a new and quickly evolving discipline. While the modern form of the practice

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Collage of Spanish language newspaper pages with banner El Municipio Libre.

Revealing Data: Mortality in Mexico City during the 1890 Influenza Epidemic

June 8, 2023 Circulating Now Guests, Rare Books & Journals, Revealing Data One comment

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, and Sydney Murphy from Virginia Tech to share their research into

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Apgar lecturing on resuscitation of newborns. Her visual aid is a poster showing the key points of the Apgar score, using the "APGAR" mnemonic, and accompanied by a frequently-used photo of Apgar in surgical gown, testing the reflexes of a newborn, which she holds suspended by its heels.

Revealing Data: Reflections on the APGAR Score

March 9, 2023 Circulating Now Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, Exhibitions, Revealing Data Leave a comment

By Kelly West ~ When I consider that I was once a sickly, premature baby brought into this world while

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Worn paper cover

Bertillon’s Statistical Analysis of the 1889–1890 Influenza Epidemic

July 14, 2022 Circulating Now Collections, Guests, Rare Books & Journals, Revealing Data One comment

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Anna Pletch, and Brooke Breighner from Virginia Tech to share their

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A network of nodes and edges showing the domains and links between them. for the NLM Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention web archive collection.

Exploring the Data of Web Archives as Part of Data Science @ NLM

May 13, 2021 Circulating Now Collections, Revealing Data 2 comments

Over the past year our project was to gain practical experience with tools and techniques for the study of web archives data.

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Men wearing white cloth masks lay on wooden cots under wool blankets.

Revealing Data: Flu Masks on Ships, 1918

November 11, 2020 Circulating Now Collections, Guests, Revealing Data, The Great War One comment

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Ariel Ludwig, Jessica Brabble, and E. Thomas Ewing, from Virginia Tech to explore the use

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Detail of printed heading reading De Ponderatione Insensibilis perspirationis.

Revealing Data: Ars de Statica Medicina, 1614

November 5, 2020 Circulating Now Collections, Guests, Rare Books & Journals, Revealing Data, Series Leave a comment

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Caterina Agostini, who discusses a recent acquisition at the NLM History of Medicine Division’s collection:

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Epidemiological map of global Zika

Revealing Data: Learning About Zika

June 18, 2020 Circulating Now Collections, Exhibitions, Revealing Data, Series Leave a comment

NLM collection items reveal how data has informed scientists’ understanding of Zika and its impact on the health of individuals and communities around the world.

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