Responding to Ebola through Visual Poetry

Responding to Ebola through Visual Poetry.

Leanne Boschman moved to Liberia to work as teachers, they initially lived in an apartment on Randal Street in downtown Monrovia. From there, Epp noted, “the sights and sounds from the community were unlike anything that I had experienced before in North American or European cities: the architecture, the flora, the street noises and outdoor activities, such as football games in a field visible ...

Explaining and responding to the Ebola epidemic

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is not merely a biomedical problem that can be seen in isolation and dealt with only through emergency medical rescue processes. The ethical dilemmas surfaced by this epidemic are also not confined to the usual micro-ethical problems associated with medical care and medical research. The pandemic, as one of many manifestations of failed human and social develop...

Responding to the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak From Wisconsin.

Responding to ever-changing epidemiological dynamics of Ebola virus disease

With the incidence and mortality rates of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone now at zero and reports of the largest and most complex EVD outbreak in history no longer on the front pages of newspapers worldwide, the urgency of that crisis seems to have subsided. During this lull after the storm and before the next one, the international community needs to engage in a '...

Emily: A Tool for Visual Poetry Analysis

Information visualization has not been very successful in pervading areas of literary and scholarly enquiry, such as the analysis of relatively unstructured human-generated text like poetry. The work presented here proposes the use of visualization tools for such scholarly analysis and details the operation of a tool developed for this purpose.