digital humanities: data/visual analysis
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data / visual analysis& digital humanities
zoe borovsky
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embodiment should be a dynamic andsubjective process
our tools should engage us in adynamic, generative, iterativeprocess
model as an interpretive expression of
a particular dataset
drucker (&nowviskie), 2004, speculative computing
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data/visual analysisMONK: metadata offers new knowledge
http://www.monkproject.org/
traditional text-analysis toolsfeature prominentvisualization tools
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TAPoR: textanalysis portal for
research
http://portal.tapor.ca/
data/ visual analysis
runs in web-browser
interactive displays
upload your owntexts
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Many Eyes is a bet on thepower of human visualintelligence to find patterns.
Our goal is to democratizevisualization and to enable anew social kind of dataanalysis.
visualization applications become text-friendly
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home
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runs in web-browser
interactive displays
users have access to
the underlying data
visualizations can beembedded or linked
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visualization tools are more accessible to the lonescholar
more data is available in machine-readable format
are these useful tools for humanities research? can theyengage us in a dynamic, generative, iterative
analysis?
data/visual analysis
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model your data/metadata
interpret
re-present
data/ visual analysisan approach (works in progress)
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data/visual analysis
macfadyen: meter & rhyme, repetition
a quick, overall view
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data/visual analysis
almila: overview of a discipline, citationnetwork
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data/visual analysis
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an overview
semaspace:
easy to arrange data from aspreadsheet to a two-column format
abstract view of data is helpful
sample
http://residence.aec.at/didi/gedanken/http://residence.aec.at/didi/gedanken/ -
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data/ visual analysisauthors who cite articles published in
Leonardomostly artjournals
Subject AreaRecordCount
% of 1689
ART 770 45.5891%
PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL 154 9.1178%
PSYCHOLOGY 103 6.0983%
HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 77 4.5589%
MUSIC 68 4.0261%
PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 58 3.4340%
COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWAREENGINEERING
52 3.0787%
COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY &METHODS
47 2.7827%
COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARYAPPLICATIONS
42 2.4867%
PHILOSOPHY 35 2.0722%
(140 Subject Area value(s) outside
display options.)
Source TitleRecordCount
% of 1689
LEONARDO 659 39.0172%
PERCEPTION 39 2.3091%
PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS 23 1.3618%
DIGITAL CREATIVITY 18 1.0657%
LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL 18 1.0657%
COMPUTER MUSIC JOURNAL 13 0.7697%
BRITISH JOURNAL OFAESTHETICS
11 0.6513%
JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS ANDART CRITICISM
11 0.6513%
INTERFACE-JOURNAL OF NEWMUSIC RESEARCH
10 0.5921%
BELFAGOR 9 0.5329%
(529 Source Title value(s) outside display options.)
mostly Leonardo
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will digital humanities provide newknowledge?
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 asinstruction
as much processing in the hands ofresearchers as practical
scholars and developers work together