Yunxin Li

A historian of China and digital humanist who loves cats and guinea pigs. Network, spatial, and text analysis. Gender history. World history. Pedagogy.

[Melanie Conroy @MelanieConroy1]

@YunxinLi2 @jgob That one is actually just Palladio but with a lot of modifications in Photoshop.
RAWgraphs does a lot of rare charts and also just more elegant versions of widely available ones.
They have a great gallery of use cases https://t.co/3sbhwKLA1q

[Yunxin Li @YunxinLi2]

@MelanieConroy1 @jgob I love this graph! Did you visualize it in RAWGraphs? I also do network analysis and I have been using Gephi and Palladio for visualization. What is the advantage of RAWGraphs, in your experience?

[Yunxin Li @YunxinLi2]

@MelanieConroy1 I found the prosopographic data messier, but partly because I looked at this database more carefully. The CHGIS also has its problems, such as one place often has multiple coordinates for the same historical period, although not far from each other, so I had to choose one of them

[Yunxin Li @YunxinLi2]

@EditrixCaroline One thing I find interesting is that serving in the capital and serving in the provinces were not contradictory for the Han officials, so loyalty to one of them did not preclude loyalty to the other. The court and the provinces were not in a zero-sum game.

[Yunxin Li @YunxinLi2]

1/4 Based on the Han Officials Database and China Historical GIS, primary sources, and GIS software, my DHSI presentation project aims to analyze how the Han officials moved within the empire, from birth to government service, to death, and burial. #DHSIConf #DHSI21

[Yunxin Li @YunxinLi2]

4/4 In order to solve the problem of data scarcity, I plan to extract more spatial information from the primary sources (Han shu and Hou han shu) through text mining, and to combine qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis. Appreciate any suggestions. #DHSIConf #DHSI21

[Yunxin Li @YunxinLi2]

3/4 The incompleteness of the dataset has hindered solving my historical questions. Does the statistical analysis reflect more the biases in the primary sources, or biases in the dataset, or some real changes over time? #DHSIConf #DHSI21