the long arc of visual display
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"Data Visualization in Research and in Teaching; or, The Long Arc of Visual Display," presented at the Penn Humanities Forum, November 20th, 2013: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/13-14/dhf_klein.shtmlTRANSCRIPT
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Data Visualization in Research and in Teaching; or, The Long Arc of Visual Display
University of PennsylvaniaPenn Digital Humanities Forum
November 20, 2013
Lauren F. KleinGeorgia Institute of Technology
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http://feltron.com/
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Nick Felton, The 2006 Feltron Annual Reporthttp://feltron.com/ar06_01.html
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Nick Felton, The 2012 Feltron Annual Reporthttp://feltron.com/ar12_04.html
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http://daytum.com/
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Nick Felton, The 2012 Feltron Annual Reporthttp://feltron.com/ar12_04.html
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Paul Rucker, Proliferationhttp://paulrucker.com/projects/proliferation/
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S.W.A.M.P CollectiveSpore 1.1
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“Graphics reveal data” (13).
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From The Works of the Honorable Robert Boyle (1744)
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http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/18
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Joseph Priestley, A New Chart of History (1769)
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“If the reader carry his eye vertically, he will see the contemporary state of all the empires subsisting in the world, at any particular time. He may observe which were then rising, which were flourishing, and which were upon the decline. Casting his eye a little on each side of the vertical line, he will see what empires had lately gone off the stage, and which were about to come on.”
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Thomas Jefferys, A Chart of Universal History (1753)
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Nicolas Lenglet du Fresnoy, Tables chronologiques de l’histoire universelle (1729)
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Visualization as “Cognitive Enhancement”
• Increased memory / processing resources• Reduced search time• Enhanced pattern recognition• Perceptual inference (much faster than logical)• Use of perceptual attention mechanisms for
monitoring• Encoding information in a manipulable form
-- Stuart Card et al., Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (Morgan Kaufman, 1999)
h/t to Chris Sula for the reference
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William Playfair, from The Commercial and Political Atlas (1786)
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“On inspecting any one of these Charts attentively, a sufficiently distinct impression will be made, to remain unimpaired for a considerable time, and the idea which does remain will be simple and complete.”
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William Playfair, from An Inquiry into the Permanent Cause of the Decline and Fall of Wealthy and Powerful Nations (1805)
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William Playfair, “CHART, Shewing at One View The Price of The Quarter of Wheat, & Wages of Labour by the Week, from The Year 1565 to 1821” (1822)
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William Playfair, “Preface to the Third Edition,” The Commercial and Political Atlas, 3rd edition (1801).
“The minds of men, the boundaries of nations, their laws and relations with each other, are all in a state of change, and commerce must feel the consequences of those events of which it has been a principal cause.
“Should those revolutions and partitions already effected, or about to be attempted, produce, as usual, political fermentation in proportion to their importance, Europe may probably be convulsed with war for fifty years to come. The last century has been the century of arts and commerce, this newly commenced may then be that of war and contention. If it turns out so, a picture of the past will be a valuable thing, if, on the contrary, commerce should continue its progress, this will make the first part of a great whole, which, when completed on some future day, will be a most valuable work.”
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William Playfair, “Preface to the Third Edition,” The Commercial and Political Atlas, 3rd edition (1801).
“It is not only of importance that this species of information should be handed down, but also that it should go down in such a form and manner as that any person might even, though a native of another country, understand the nature of the business delineated.”
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Gregor AischData Insights: A Visualization
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Visualization insight
• “We discover unimagined effects, and we challenge imagined ones.”
--William Cleveland, Visualizing Data (1993)
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Visualization insight
• “We discover unimagined effects, and we challenge imagined ones.”
--William Cleveland, Visualizing Data (1993)• “I see it now. Aha!”
--Martin Wattenberg, on data visualization (2007)
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Visualization insight
• “We discover unimagined effects, and we challenge imagined ones.”
--William Cleveland, Visualizing Data (1993)• “I see it now. Aha!”
--Martin Wattenberg, on data visualization (2007)• It “forces” us to see.
--Stephen Ramsay, “In Praise of Pattern” (1995).
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Thomas Jefferson1783 Catalog of Books
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Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1787 edition)
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“A Comparative View of the Quadrupeds of Europe and of America.” Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-5)
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“Vegetables.” Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-5)
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“Birds of Virginia.” Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-5)
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A page of Thomas Jefferson’s Farm-book, ca. 1774.
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A page of Thomas Jefferson’s Farm-book, ca. 1774.
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Thomas Jefferson, “Agreement with James Hemings” (1793)
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http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/default.xqy?keys=TSJN-info-search
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http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/TSJN-01-27-02-0127
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David Sparks, “How Congress Uses Twitter”http://www.psmag.com/politics/how-congress-uses-twitter-16338/
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Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin Movable Type
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How to tell a new story …
… in space:• Where did events take place, or objects originate?• How did people, objects, or ideas circulate?• What is the composition of a place (real or imagined)?
Tools• Google Maps• Geocommons• Neatline• HyperCities• OpenLayers• ArcGIS
Mitch Fraas, Mapping Bookshttp://mappingbooks.blogspot.com/
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How to tell a new story …
… over time:• How did an event (or sequence of events) unfold?• How did an idea (or sequence of ideas) develop?• What were the touchpoints of a particular movement? Tools• Dipity• Timeline.js• Neatline• TimeFlow
David McClure, The Battle of Chancellorsvillehttp://hotchkiss.neatline.org/neatline-exhibits/
show/battle-of-chancellorsville/
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How to tell a new story …
… across networks:• How were people connected?• How did content travel?• Through what pathways were ideas exchanged?
Tools• Circos• Gephi• Cytoscape• NodeXL• D3.js
Northeastern University NULab, Viral Textshttp://www.viraltexts.org/
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How to tell a new story …
… in language:• How often does a certain word, phrase, or theme appear?• When did a certain word, phrase, or theme become prevalent?• What are the most common themes in an archive?
Tools• Wordle• ManyEyes• Google Ngram Viewer• Voyant• WordSeer• MALLET
Sarah Lohman, Nutmeg, Mace, Cinnamon, Clovehttp://www.fourpoundsflour.com/the-gallery-
data-visualization-of-a-timeline-of-taste/
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How to tell a new story …
… through charts:• Tableau Public (PC only)• Google Fusion Tables• D3.js
Also, tools for preparing/cleaning data:• Microsoft Excel (w/ search/replace)• Data Wrangler• Google Refine
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Great Tools for Data Visualizationhttp://www.idea.org/blog/2012/10/25/great-tools-for-data-visualization/
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A Carefully Selected List of Recommended Toolshttp://selection.datavisualization.ch/
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Data Visualization in Research and in Teaching; or, The Long Arc of Visual Display
University of PennsylvaniaPenn Digital Humanities Forum
November 20, 2013
Lauren F. KleinGeorgia Institute of Technology