https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/blog.html A historian's data blog quarto-1.9.36 Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/elizabethan-court-of-requests/ maps interactive petitioning https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/elizabethan-court-of-requests/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/atb-events-map.html maps interactive ATB https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/atb-events-map.html Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/obv-llep-explorer.html interactive LL poor https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/obv-llep-explorer.html Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/obv-llpp-explorer.html interactive LL petitioning https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/obv-llpp-explorer.html Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/cdrv-pauper-removals-map/ maps interactive LL poor https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/cdrv-pauper-removals-map/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/tpop-qs-explorer.html interactive TPOP petitioning https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/tpop-qs-explorer.html Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/tpop-sp-explorer.html interactive TPOP petitioning https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/tpop-sp-explorer.html Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/tpop-hol-explorer.html interactive TPOP petitioning https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/tpop-hol-explorer.html Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/hcr-data-explorer/ London Lives Home Office Criminal Registers 1792-1801. ]]> interactive crime LL https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/hcr-data-explorer/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/westminster-coroners-dashboard.html interactive LL death https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/westminster-coroners-dashboard.html Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/petitions-first-dashboard.html Power of Petitioning project. ]]> interactive TPOP petitioning https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/petitions-first-dashboard.html Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/barcode-charts/ methods https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/barcode-charts/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/stepney-burials/ Content note: this post discusses infant and child mortality. ]]> death https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/stepney-burials/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 23:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/pairs-observable-plot/ Quarto’s built in support for Observable JS to make interactive charts. Here I’m working through some options for visualising “paired” data (where there are two groups for comparison: eg male v female, two points in time, or some other category with just two values). ]]> interactive methods https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/pairs-observable-plot/ Fri, 08 Aug 2025 23:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/slopegraphs/ methods petitioning https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/slopegraphs/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/ggplot-to-observable-petitions/ Quarto’s built in support for Observable JS to make interactive charts. Here I’m working through converting a bar chart of petitioning topics I made earlier in ggplot to use Observable Plot. ]]> interactive methods petitioning https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/ggplot-to-observable-petitions/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/making-my-first-data-package/ packages methods https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/making-my-first-data-package/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/waffle-petitions/ methods petitioning https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/waffle-petitions/ Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/sparks-obo/ methods OBO https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/sparks-obo/ Sat, 31 May 2025 23:00:00 GMT Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/power-of-petitioning-19c-2025-04/ petitioning politics https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/posts/power-of-petitioning-19c-2025-04/ Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:00:00 GMT