McMaster Archive

January 8, 2025

Spark Talk: “How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities” by James Feigenbaum

At the turn of the 20th century, when immigrants made up one-third of the population in crowded American cities, contemporaries blamed high urban mortality rates . . .

January 8, 2025

Spark Talk: “You Can Visualize Qualitative Data!” by Allison Van (January 10th, 2025)

Research has shown that visuals make more lasting impressions than blocks of text. Yet too many still believe that data visualization is reserved for quantitative . . .