Visualizing Data: Making Sense of an Information-Rich World

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+ Graham Bennett 2 years ago
Interesting presentation - Thanks!
+ Diego Maranan 2 years ago
Here’s another way of looking at the data. This was done by combining the frequencies of all words related either to the concept of a subjugated society or a 'filipino nation'.

What I’ve just done was a very quick and not at all rigorous approach to visualizing some data, but hopefully it gives you an idea of the kind of issues you would have to consider.
+ Diego Maranan 2 years ago
The change is in the first four or five terms, It’s a *small* change.
+ Diego Maranan 2 years ago
Based on what Anderson set out to do, it would be consistent for us to categorize the concepts into more general categories, which I’ve color-coded in this slide.
+ Diego Maranan 2 years ago
Here’s another representation of the same data. What I did was I took the frequencies and used them as the font size of the associated word.
+ Diego Maranan 2 years ago
This is a more visual representation of the table from the previous slide.
+ Diego Maranan 2 years ago
So summary, even if anderson’s methods need examination, let’s just ignore that for now and return to the task at hand, which is **visualizing the data he has generated, so that the data is immediately understandable to someone**.

Let’s go back to that table of word frequencies from a couple of slides back, and let’s ignore 'who said what' and focus just on the frequencies.
+ Diego Maranan 2 years ago
Here’s an example of what I mean when I say that methods used in collecting and generating data can be problematic:

Anderson classified all mentions of the word 'Patria' to mean either

-Spain
-Filipinas
-'motherland as a general concept'

When Ibarra says this line, Anderson classified Ibarra’s utterance of 'patria' to mean 'Spain'. But if you lookl closely, there’s an implication that the 'primera patria' has to be Filipinas! But did Anderson classify it as such? I can’t be sure, but based on the books, it doesn’t look like it.
+ Diego Maranan 2 years ago
You should read in detail the text that I quote here form the book. But in essence, it says: In the Noli, not a lot of people, including our ’indio’ heroes, talked about the concept of 'the Philippines' (i.e., the Philippine nation-state). Therefore, it doesn’t seem likely that there was a 'widespread ’Filipino nationalist consciousness’' at the time.
+ Diego Maranan 2 years ago
In his book, 'Why Counting Counts', the Cornell University historian and Rizal scholar Benedict Anderson goes through Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo and picks out certain words. He lists down the number of instances of each word and who says them. Combining this data with more traditional approach to analyzing narratives, he goes on to make certain conclusions about the novels (such as who they were written for, or what the social climate at the time was like).

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Visualizing Data: Making Sense of an Information-Rich World MMS 100, 1st Semester, 2008 Diego Maranan dmaranan@upou.edu.ph Faculty of Information and Communication Studies UP Open University Visualization of del.icio.us tags is courtesy of kaeru on Flickr.com and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. I assert that any use of copyrighted images in this presentation constitutes acceptable use because they are low-resolution copies, do not limit in any way the copyright owners to sell the images or products they represent, are identified and referenced clearly, and are used only to illustrate arguments central to this presentation. Non-copyrighted portions of this presentation are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Philippi

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