New York Times Digital Maps Are Giving Scholars the Historical Lay of the Land Benjamin Ray, the director of the Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive at the University of Virginia, said visualizing data helps you to analyze it. “The eye is a very good sorter of patterns,” he said. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/arts/geographic-information-systems-help-scholars-see-history.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22University%20of%20Virginia%22&st=cse
