GlobalMotion - Home Visualization as a Digital Humanities ________ Presentation given on Saturday, April 27, 2013, at HASTAC 2013 in Toronto, Canada. [Download on Slideshare] You will notice I have changed the title of my presentation a bit from what is in the program. Partially, it’s because I’m an indecisive academic, but mostly, it is in reaction to my experience of co-hosting a HASTAC forum on “Visualization Across Disciplines” this past week. As a new media scholar with one foot in visualization and the other in the digital humanities, I often find myself asking myself this: “What exactly is visualization in the digital humanities?” We’ve already established and can agree upon why we use it. But what I’m more interested in and what we never really talk about is the how. First, let me clarify what I mean by visualization. We could certainly come up with others; but what I want to note are two important points: 1) the visualizations I’m talking about are digital, and 2) they help us to “make sense” of data. This is not a new idea. Opinions?
4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics The 4A_Laboratory is a research and fellowship program designed in cooperation with the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Institute for Art History in Florence) as a research institute of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society) and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) including their museums and research institutions. Further partners are the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Forum Transregionale Studien. It aims to create a space for dialogue between institutions and disciplines that oftentimes operate separately. In particular, the 4A_Lab attempts to link together the disciplines of Art History, Archaeology, Anthropology/Ethnology, and Aesthetic Practices (4A), as well as other disciplines concerned with objects, practices, ecologies, and narratives (OPEN). The 4A_Lab program has an interinstitutional, interdisciplinary, and transregional approach. The 4A_Lab exceeds the museum research program in the narrow sense.
The Best Tools for Visualization Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Visualize Social Networks Last.Forward: Thanks to Last.fm's new widget gallery, you can now explore a wide selection of extras to extend your Last.fm experience. Last Forward Friends Sociomap: Friends Sociomap is another Last.fm tools that generates a map of the music compatibility between you and your Last.fm friends. Fidg't: Fidg't is a desktop application that gives you a way to view your networks tagging habits. Fidg't The Digg Tools: One more: Digg Radar. YouTube: You can discover related videos using YouTube's visualizations. Visualize Music Amazon
DH Press | Digital Humanities Toolkit The Teasel in the English Woollen Cloth Industry | Exploring Building History Tuckers Hall, Exeter – The Guild and Incorporation of Weavers, Fullers & Shearmen Earlier this year I visited the 15th-century Tuckers Hall in Exeter (before Lockdown). It has been occupied by the Guilds and Incorporation of Weavers, Fullers & Shearmen since 1471. William and Cecilia Bowden originally gifted them a plot of land to build their hall from which they could regulate the woollen cloth trade. A ‘tucker’ is another name for a ‘fuller’ and is a West Country term. Figure 2: Tuckers Hall in Fore Street, Exeter Much of medieval England would have been a mixture of scenes related to the woollen cloth industry. So how was the Fuller’s Teasel used in woollen cloth production? The Fulling Process Once woollen cloth has been woven it needs to be processed further. …Is not comely to wear, Till it be fulled under fote, or in fulling stocks; Washen well with water, and with teasels scratched, Towked and teynted, and under talour’s hands. Figure 4: The king teasel and the smaller heads.
Between Friends The idea of a social graph–a representation of a person’s network of friends, family, and acquaintances–gained currency last year as the popularity of online social networks grew: Facebook, for example, claims to have more than 64 million active users, with 250,000 more signing up each day. It and other sites have tried to commercialize these social connections by allowing outside developers to build applications that access users’ networks. Facebook also advertises to a user’s contacts in accordance with the user’s online buying habits. The push to understand the nature and potential value of links between people online has led to imaginative ways to represent such networks. BlogosphereCommunities that form around the exchange of information stand out in Matthew Hurst’s visualizations of the blogosphere. Credit: Matthew Hurst
Articles table of contents methods All images in this article were created with Circos (v0.49) and the tableviewer utility tool. Tables Store Data, not Present It Motivation Tables are natural containers for data. In other words - a useful container isn't automatically a useful presenter. Figure If your data are eggs, then the table is the egg crate, which keeps data ordered, separated and easily accessible. This article discusses an approach in which tabular data sets can be visually presented in a quantitative and informative manner. The method is an application of the Circos application. Tables are visual obstacles Consider the five tables below. Figure There is a limit to the size of a table that can be easily visually inspected. Unfortunately, most interesting data sets correspond to tables larger than 3x3 - usually much larger. Figure Adding row and column statistics to the table helps, but even simple patterns can still remain undetected. Examples of Uninterpretable Tables Visualizing ratios
Rights and Rites, uses of traditional Indian plants + digital specimens Geovisualization Geovisualization or Geovisualisation, short for Geographic Visualization, refers to a set of tools and techniques supporting geospatial data analysis through the use of interactive visualization. Like the related fields of scientific visualization[1] and information visualization [2] geovisualization emphasizes knowledge construction over knowledge storage or information transmission.[1] To do this, geovisualization communicates geospatial information in ways that, when combined with human understanding, allow for data exploration and decision-making processes.[1][3][4] Traditional, static maps have a limited exploratory capability; the graphical representations are inextricably linked to the geographical information beneath. History[edit] The term visualization is first mentioned in the cartographic literature at least as early as 1953, in an article by University of Chicago geographer Allen K. Philbrick. Geovisualization has continued to grow as a subject of practice and research.
Literary evidence for taro in the ancient Mediterranean: A chronology of names and uses in a multilingual world | PLOS ONE Citation: Grimaldi IM, Muthukumaran S, Tozzi G, Nastasi A, Boivin N, Matthews PJ, et al. (2018) Literary evidence for taro in the ancient Mediterranean: A chronology of names and uses in a multilingual world. PLoS ONE 13(6): e0198333. Editor: Rainer Bussmann, Missouri Botanical Garden, UNITED STATES Received: November 28, 2017; Accepted: May 17, 2018; Published: June 5, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Grimaldi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Introduction Taro, Colocasia esculenta (L.) Methods Many early historical references to taro are now available online. Results Fig 4.
New York Talk Exchange New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP data flowing between New York and cities around the world. In an information age, telecommunications such as the Internet and the telephone bind people across space by eviscerating the constraints of distance. To reveal the relationships that New Yorkers have with the rest of the world, New York Talk Exchange asks: How does the city of New York connect to other cities? With which cities does New York have the strongest ties and how do these relationships shift with time? How does the rest of the world reach into the neighborhoods of New York? The size of the glow on a particular city location corresponds to the amount of IP traffic flowing between that place and New York City. The NYTE project has been on display at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, part of the Design and Elastic Mind exhibition, and the real time data is being provided by AT&T.
The Paper Project In January 2018, the Getty Foundation launched The Paper Project: Prints and Drawings Curatorship in the 21st Century. This international initiative supports training and professional development for early- to mid-career curators of prints and drawings. The Paper Project helps curators navigate the demands of the 21st-century museum, both by preserving traditional skills that have been passed down through generations of specialists and by supporting innovative efforts to make graphic arts collections accessible and relevant to today's audiences. Past grants awarded in The Paper Project have included support for curatorial fellowships, collection-based research fellowships, short-term traveling seminars, professional workshops, digital projects, and exhibition and publication projects at museums, libraries, archives, and other institutions that work with prints and drawings. We are currently accepting applications for the following types of grants: Applicants will be notified by May 2022.