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Through a Digital Humanities approach, the text critiques reductionist factualisation and deterministic hotspot reasoning while highlighting how spatial epidemiology tools hybridise figurations of society. It argues for a context-aware applied geostatistics and a middle ground between hermeneutic phenomenology and reductionism, enabling reflective positionality beyond purely factual readings of geodata and (geo)statistics.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/petrichor-and-positionality-occasion-for-a-situated-spatial-epidemiology-in-the-digital-humanities-abstract/155223/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/petrichor-and-positionality-occasion-for-a-situated-spatial-epidemiology-in-the-digital-humanities-abstract/155223.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Lucas Martin","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-04","2026-08-28",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":52},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What role did digital dashboards play in public COVID-19 understanding?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"Map-based dynamic platforms rapidly spread incidence, mortality, and later hospitalisation and vaccination data, shaping discourse and how non-experts interpreted the pandemic.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What critique does the text make of common spatial epidemiology approaches?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It challenges reductionist, deterministic hotspot-based reasoning and highlights contested sociopolitical anchoring, including issues like raw versus standardised rates and the influence of positionality.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What does the author propose for spatial epidemiology within the Digital Humanities?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"The author argues for a humanities-adjacent, context-aware geostatistics that embraces social and situational factors and supports reflective practice rather than purely factualising readings of geodata.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},155223,1787908016,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":52,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":129,"read_time":144,"preview_page_count":4},8796095360427,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_994ba38a5ba835b3df7d355c54d3ed8d","Petrichor and Positionality: Occasion for a Situated Spatial Epidemiology in the Digital Humanities  \nBlake Byron Walker  \nÈisd ri gaoth nam beann gus an traoigh na huisgeachan.  \n[Listen to the mountain wind until the waters abate.]  \nScottish Gaelic Proverb  \nAbstract Within months of the first COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, map-based dynamic platforms for disseminating population-level incidence, mortality, and later hospitalisation and vaccination data quickly grew to near total ubiquity (Rosenkrantz et al. 2021). As digital artefacts reproducing a reductionist factualisation (Kitchin et al. 2015) and statist sociopolitical anchoring (Everts 2020) of the pandemic, dashboards and interactive maps have featured prominently in public discourses of anxiety and othering as non-expert citizens sought to understand the pandemic as a sociocultural, political, and public health phenomenon, somehow manifest in spatial administrative units and spreading in shades of red as ‘hotspots’ emerged and dissipated. Simultaneously, these technologies have come to serve as a hybrid figurisation (Wilson 2009) of society’s confrontation with geospatial and epidemiological methodologies and epistemologies, as rationalisations of the situation are contested via argumentations based on largely deterministic constructs such as hotspots, spatial and temporal lag, raw versus standardised rates versus case counts, covariates and confounding, and ‘the curve’ . The Digital Humanities concern themselves in part with reading the human condition through the digital artefacts we create and produce. Maps and geodata are among the many digital art forms that we can analyse through a Digital Humanities lens. In this disquisition, I draw primarily on critical GIScience perspectives grounded in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, presenting navigable inroads towards a more context-aware applied geostatistics, particularly in the context ofspatial epidemiology. I argue that the increasing prominence ofgeostatistical conceptsand their instrumentalisations for producing Lefebvrian space (Pierce & Martin 2015) underscore the need for a humanities-adjacent geostatistics that embraces the social, cultural,  \n64 SPATIAL CONCEPTS, APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES  \nand situational, and optimistically suggest that amidst long-standing epistemological incongruencies (Schuurman 2000; Wilson 2017) stands a middle-ground between hermeneutic phenomenology and deterministic reductionism.  \nKeywords: Digital Humanities, Spatial Epidemiology, Geographic Information Science, Health Geography, COVID-19  \nFragrance of a Storm  \nIn the initial months of the pandemic, state actors encouraged the individual to take shelter and wait for the tempest to pass. Gazing into open laptops and smartphone screens, we anxiously sought to make sense of the pandemic’s digital traces of the struggle in hospitals, care facilities, and communities worldwide. In the various narratives and discourses concerning COVID-19, the storm metaphor rapidly devolved into cliché, albeit in many ways a fitting one. Even in the realm of digitalities and the psychosocial, the sheer quantity, pervasiveness, and impact of data regarding the pandemic was not unlike a squall, confronting experts and non-experts alike with irregular and often conflicting interpretations, narratives, and criticalities. Ido not intend in this paper to ruminate on the storm, rather, I lead a meditation on its digital petrichor, considering the Digital Humanities as an inroad towards a hybrid, situated spatial epidemiology, in which the creator and the consumer of digital (geo)data are increasingly challenged to critically reflect on positionality and context beyond traditionally reductionist and factualising readings of (geo)statistics.  \nThe Digital Humanities seek in part to read the human condition through the varied digital artefacts that we create and produce. Traditionally considered and practiced as a subdiscipline of the natural sciences and there","cbCainX8qeqCavWo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainX8qeqCavWo","pdf",186380,18,"English","# Abstract\n## Dashboard Pandemic\n## Fragrance of a Storm","[{\"question\":\"What role did digital dashboards play in public COVID-19 understanding?\",\"answer\":\"Map-based dynamic platforms rapidly spread incidence, mortality, and later hospitalisation and vaccination data, shaping discourse and how non-experts interpreted the pandemic.\"},{\"question\":\"What critique does the text make of common spatial epidemiology approaches?\",\"answer\":\"It challenges reductionist, deterministic hotspot-based reasoning and highlights contested sociopolitical anchoring, including issues like raw versus standardised rates and the influence of positionality.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the author propose for spatial epidemiology within the Digital Humanities?\",\"answer\":\"The author argues for a humanities-adjacent, context-aware geostatistics that embraces social and situational factors and supports reflective practice rather than purely factualising readings of geodata.\"}]","Petrichor and Positionality - Occasion for a Situated Spatial Epidemiology in the Digital Humanities - Abstract | PDF",45]