Comments on: Data Visualization: From Discovery Tools to Visual Arguments

By: Shane Landrum

Shane Landrum — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:06:12 +0000

I can’t attend this year’s THATCamp New England, but I’m definitely interested in this session and in whatever output it produces. (Your question about handling data that wasn’t originally created in a visualization-friendly way seems very appropriate for historians.) Please keep me posted.

By: swalkowiak2011

swalkowiak2011 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:37:26 +0000

I’m definitely interested! I’m a dataviz novice/fan, and would be willing to talk about introductory dataviz tools, like many eyes, wordle, lightweight “hacking” of text using desktop search tools like copernic, “hacking” powerpoint to make simple, pretty infographics etc.

By: mhowser

mhowser — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:14:25 +0000

This would be a great session! My focus has been on data visualizations using maps and I would love to learn more about how to visualize complex datasets using interactive display tools (i.e. Google Fusion Tables) that could provide an engaging learning experience. Being a librarian, I would be interested in discussing digital data archiving and providing public access to large archival datasets via the web.

By: rness

rness — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:59:53 +0000

Jean, I too would be interested in this session. I think I may make a pecha kucha presentation next month on data visualization methods in relation to public humanities for my class with Steve Lubar. I attended the Humanities and Visual Interpretations Conference last year organizied by MIT’s Hyperstudio & Digital Humanities Group and I would like to explore what has been happening with visualization tools since then. I’d also like to brainstorm on what we may be able to do with our existing data here at Brown.

By: ABrubaker

ABrubaker — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:37:00 +0000

I would definitely be interested in this session. I’m currently working on a project on statistics and late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African-American history, and more specifically at the moment, a study of Ida B. Wells’ data on lynchings. I want to explore ways that I can represent her findings in dynamic digital formats and also contextualize her data using mapping tools and comparative graphs and tables. Because I’m fairly new to using these kinds of tools, I’m most interested in the first question of “how we do it?”