Introduction to Digital Humanities

Data Visualization


This week we will examine some of the promises and pitfalls of communicating humanities research in the visual mode.

Annotation #6

1. Yau, Nathan. Data Points: Visualization That Means Something. Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley and Sons, 2013. Chapter 3. Hypothes.is link.

2. Johanna Drucker, “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5, no. 1 (2011). Hypothes.is link.

3. US Gun Deaths. Hypothes.is link

4. Torn Apart/ Separados. Hypothes.is link.

 

Assignment #6 (Adapted from Miriam Posner)

Use one of Dr. John Rasp's Data Sets for Classroom Us​e​ to build a simple data visualization with TableauRaw Graphs, or Morph doing your best to adhere to the principles Nathan Yau lays out in Data Points.  Embed your visualization on your "Assignment #6" page and discuss what your visualization tells you that you couldn’t see from the data itself, and why you selected a particular visualization tool(s). Be sure to follow the instructions on the "Assignment" page of our workbook to make sure that it shows up in the contents of your personal page and the "Assignment #6" page. 

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