Our team has partnered with Emory staff, faculty, and students to amplify research and elevate stories found within data and academic exploration. Since 2013, we have been proud to collaborate with internal and external partners on a variety of projects, some of which are highlighted on this site.
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PI Professor Sarah McPhee leads the project, which is creating an internet-based, 3D walkable reconstruction of the city of Rome ca. 1676, using the gaming platform Unity. The reconstruction is grounded in Giovanni Battista Falda’s (1643-1678) great bird’s-eye view map of that year, and over three hundred views of the city etched by the artist. Visitors virtually enter the map, strolling the streets of the Baroque city, viewing piazzas, streets, fountains, and architecture lost in the intervening centuries.
The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, open-access journal published in collaboration with the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. JHR publishes work that reflects and analyzes the physical, cognitive, emotional, socio-cultural, spiritual, and political elements that comprise humanism in rehabilitation.
The National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center’s (NETEC) comprises faculty and staff from Emory University, the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine, and NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. All work diligently to share their knowledge with health care, EMS, and public health personnel through consultations, education, and research for special pathogen preparedness and response across health systems in the U.S. ECDS built and supports NETEC’s training website as well as assists NETEC with training video creation.
Data By Design is an interactive history of data visualization, with the final version forthcoming in print and online from The MIT Press in Fall 2026. ECDS software engineers Jay Varner, Yang Li, and graduate student Margy Adams will be listed as co-authors of the publication. The team is led by Professor Lauren Klein from the departments of English, and Quantitative Theory and Methods. The software engineers, researchers, and designers work together to implement the site and interactive visualizations. In 2024, the project went into public beta for an open peer review process.