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Visual Analysis and Digital Humanities
1. data / visual analysis
& digital humanities
zoe borovsky
zoe@ats.ucla.edu
2. drucker (& nowviskie), 2004, speculative computing
• embodiment should be a dynamic and
subjective process
• our tools should engage us in a
“dynamic, generative, iterative” process
• model as an interpretive expression of a
particular dataset
3. data/ visual analysis
MONK: metadata offers new knowledge
• traditional text-
analysis tools
feature prominent
visualization tools
http://www.monkproject.org/
4. data/ visual analysis
TAPoR: text analysis
portal for research
• runs in web-browser
• interactive displays
• upload your own
texts
http://portal.tapor.ca/
6. visualization applications become text-friendly
• “Many Eyes is a bet on the
power of human visual
intelligence to find patterns.”
• “Our goal is to ‘democratize’
visualization and to enable a
new social kind of data
analysis.”
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home
7. • runs in web-browser
• interactive displays
• users have access to the
underlying data
• visualizations can be
embedded or linked
8. data/ visual analysis
• visualization tools are more accessible to the “lone
scholar”
• more data is available in machine-readable format
• are these useful tools for humanities research? can they
engage us in a “dynamic, generative, iterative” analysis?
9. data/ visual analysis
an approach (works in progress)
• model your data/metadata
• interpret
• re-present
• the modeling process may be more important
than any one model
18. applications to watch
• Simile: http://simile.mit.edu
• Swivel: http://www.swivel.com
• Google visualization and spreadsheets:
e.g. Motion Chart
19. will digital humanities provide new knowledge?
• or just “better”/different artifacts,
communication & arguments?
• weigh the benefits and risks of an opportunity
• greater benefits if:
• viewed as a process (rather than product)
• integrated into research as well as
instruction
• as much processing in the hands of
researchers as practical
• scholars and developers work together