VISUALIZATIONas a Digital Humanities ?

Tara ZepelUniversity of California, San Diego

tarazee@gmail.com

http://hastac.org/forums/visualization-across-disciplines

What is visualizationin the digital humanities?

a tool … ?a research lens … ?a medium … ?a ______ … ?

What is visualizationin the digital humanities?

visualization

“The use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition.” (Card et al., 1999)

“…the graphical display of abstract information for two purposes: sense-making (also called data analysis) and communication.” (Stephen Few)

visualization

1. digital

2. “make sense” of data

Visualization is a ?

digital tool

John Burrows, 17th and 18th c. verse

Mapping the Republic of Letters

Visualization Toolkits

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

http://datavisualization.ch/

DH Research Tools

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

extend our conceptual scope and reach

create / discover new knowledge

visualization

Visualization is ?

thinking

“No thought processes seem to exist that cannot be found to operate, at least in principle, in perception. Visual perception is visual thinking.”

“…perceiving and thinking are indivisibly intertwined.”

Visualization is ?

process

Lattice Uncertainty Visualization

What is visualizationin the digital humanities?

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