Review: Dunham's Data

Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry explores the kinds of questions and problems that make the analysis and visualization of data meaningful for dance history, through the case study of 20th century African American choreographer Katherine Dunham.We manually curate datasets from a large body of undigitized primary source print materials that Dunham herself chose to save, held by seven archives across the US, which find meaning and expression in tandem with exploratory static and interactive data visualizations.These document the daily itinerary of Dunham's touring and travel from the