Readings

• FusionCharts, “Principles of Data Visualization: What We See in a Visual” (InfoSoft Global Private Limited, 2015), http://www.fusioncharts.com/whitepapers/downloads/Principles-of-Data-Visualization.pdf
• Ravi Parikh, “How to Lie with Data Visualization,” Heap Data Blog, April 14, 2014, http://data.heapanalytics.com/how-to-lie-with-data-visualization/
• Chris Alen Sula, “Quantifying Culture: The Value of Visualization inside (and Outside) Libraries, Museums, and the Academy,” in EVA London 2012: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts: Proceedings, BCS London, 10 – 12 July 2012, ed. Stuart E. Dunn, J. P. Bowen, and Kia Ng (Swindon: British Computer Society, 2012), 253–57, http://ewic.bcs.org/upload/pdf/ewic_ev12_s14paper3.pdf
• Lev Manovich, “Mondrian vs Rothko: Footprints and Evolution in Style Space,” Software Studies Initiative, June 29, 2011, http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2011/06/mondrian-vs-rothko-footprints-and.html
• Ryan Andrews, “Reply to Mondrian vs Rothko: Footprints and Evolution in Style Space,” You Are Creative, July 21, 2011, http://iwasnteventhere.tumblr.com/post/7882377942/reply-to-mondrian-vs-rothko-footprints-and

Suggested

• Lev Manovich, “Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections,” in Media Studies Futures, ed. Kelly Gates, vol. VI, VII vols., The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), http://softwarestudies.com/cultural_analytics/Manovich.Media_Visualization.web.2012.v2.doc
• Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, and Scott Weingart, “Principles of Information Visualization,” in The Historian’s Macroscope: Big Digital History, Pre-draft (London: Imperial College Press, 2015), http://www.themacroscope.org/?page_id=469

Activities

Morning

• Discussion about visualizations
• Demo and Hands-on Session: visualizing with Voyant Tools
• Demo and Hands-on Session: visualizing with Excel

Afternoon

• Demo and Hands-on Session: visualizing with Tableau Public
• Demo Session: network diagrams with Palladio
• Demo Session: interactive timelines with Timeline JS
• Hands-on Session: using visualization tools
  • Data sets: https://github.com/robertss/getty-institute-data/tree/master/monday
  • Tate Gallery collection on Github: https://github.com/tategallery/collection

Homework

• Please respond to a second quick survey (commenting on Thursday through today): http://arthistory2015.doingdh.org/midterm-survey-2/

Sites

• ImagePlot: http://lab.softwarestudies.com/p/imageplot.html
• Information Aesthetics: http://infosthetics.com/
• Visual Complexity: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
• Google Visualization Playground: https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/?csw=1#p/
• Museums using visualizations:
  • http://stamen.com/clients/sfmoma_artscope
  • http://www.australiandressregister.org/timeline/
  • https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/project/art-project
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: http://www.sfmoma.org/
• Preservation of Favored Traces: http://benfry.com/traces/
• Artist Fellows: Visualizing Artists’ Careers: http://diagrams.stateoftheartist.org/
• Lord of the Rings project: http://lotrproject.com/statistics/books/wordscount
• Visualizing: http://www.visualizing.org/galleries/culture-data-culture

Tools

• Timeline Tools: ViewShare, Dipity, TimelineJS
• Neatline Simile timeline plugin for Omeka
• Flare: http://flare.prefuse.org/ and tutorial: http://flare.prefuse.org/tutorial

Extra Material

Zotero Folder – Day 6 – Visualizations and Networks – Extra Material

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