Keeping Johanna Drucker and Martyn Jessop’s critiques of humanistic data-visualization in mind, as well as Franco Moretti’s development of distance reading, I’m anxious to tinker with the model to see how to properly convey the urban phantasmagoria evoked in Ulysses. Following those critiques, I think, will help my map attend to Joyce’s spatial defamiliarizations, geopolitical investments, without falling into the practice of appraising Ulysses as a triumph of geospatial verisimilitude.

For my data model, I plan to limit myself to the KML file and an exportable Google Docs spreadsheet, listing my data (and metadata of the appended files) in legible columns. I’ve not decided the parameters of the data beyond a passage from the text and an affixed historical photograph to make the street scene intelligible.   

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