This document discusses various tools and frameworks for data visualization and digital humanities projects. It provides brief overviews of GraphViz, R Programming Language, JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, Protovis, D3, Processing, Tableau, Prefuse, Gephi, and Exhibit. It also discusses points of departure for digital humanities work and considerations for "selling" a digital humanities project, including having a concrete idea, finding examples of successful similar projects, getting relevant facts, and taking action to start a project.
This book documents an ongoing dialogue between developers and designers involved in the wider ecosystem of Libre Graphics. Its lengthy title, / think that conversations are the best, biggest thing that Free Software has to offer its user, is taken from an interview with Dcbian developer Ashccsh Laroia, Just ask and that will be that, included in this publication. His remark points at the difference that Free Software can make when users arc invited to consider, interrogate and discuss not only the technical details of software, but its concepts and histories as well.
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Digital Humanities is a term that elicits both excitement and scorn in scholarly circles, and there is still a great deal of discussion as to whether it is a field of inquiry, a set of research methods, or simply a new perspective on arts and humanities research. This workshop will provide a brief survey of how the evolving theory and practice of using contemporary technology and technology-assisted research methods are impacting scholarship in the arts and humanities.
Zezan Tam's slides at Mobile Monday. Zezan Tam is a Melbourne based entrepreneur. After leaving his job at Boston Consulting Group, Zezan attended Singularity University in Silicon Valley, which kickstarted his thinking and excitement towards technology and entrepreneurship. He is currently working on a number of businesses in Australia, as well as being Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Melbourne Accelerator Program. He travelled to Yangon to see the Myanmar entrepreneurship scene, and is interested in investing into talented entrepreneurs operating in a vibrant country poised for an exciting growth period.
IronHacks Live: Info session #3 - COVID-19 Data Science ChallengePurdue RCODI
This IronHacks Live: Info Session provided details on the Summer 2020: COVID-19 Data Science Challenge hosted by the IronHacks Team at the Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI) at Purdue University.
This book documents an ongoing dialogue between developers and designers involved in the wider ecosystem of Libre Graphics. Its lengthy title, / think that conversations are the best, biggest thing that Free Software has to offer its user, is taken from an interview with Dcbian developer Ashccsh Laroia, Just ask and that will be that, included in this publication. His remark points at the difference that Free Software can make when users arc invited to consider, interrogate and discuss not only the technical details of software, but its concepts and histories as well.
We make brands stronger and brand leaders smarter. Here's how we can help:
1. We lead workshops to define your brand, helping you uncover a unique, own-able Brand Positioning Statement and an organizing Big Idea that transforms your brand’s DNA into a consumer-centric and winning brand reputation.
2. We lead workshops to build a strategic Brand Plan that will optimize your resources and motivates everyone that touches the brand to follow the plan.
3. We coach on Marketing execution, helping build programs that create a bond with your consumers, to ensure your investment drives growth on your brand.
4. We will build a Brand Management Training Program, so you can unleash the full potential of your Marketing team, enabling them to contribute smart and exceptional Marketing work that drives brand growth.
5. Our Executive Coaching program is designed to help Marketing Leaders get smarter, and then drive stronger performance on their brands. Executives can use their increased knowledge to help their own teams get smarter.
Digital Humanities is a term that elicits both excitement and scorn in scholarly circles, and there is still a great deal of discussion as to whether it is a field of inquiry, a set of research methods, or simply a new perspective on arts and humanities research. This workshop will provide a brief survey of how the evolving theory and practice of using contemporary technology and technology-assisted research methods are impacting scholarship in the arts and humanities.
Zezan Tam's slides at Mobile Monday. Zezan Tam is a Melbourne based entrepreneur. After leaving his job at Boston Consulting Group, Zezan attended Singularity University in Silicon Valley, which kickstarted his thinking and excitement towards technology and entrepreneurship. He is currently working on a number of businesses in Australia, as well as being Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Melbourne Accelerator Program. He travelled to Yangon to see the Myanmar entrepreneurship scene, and is interested in investing into talented entrepreneurs operating in a vibrant country poised for an exciting growth period.
IronHacks Live: Info session #3 - COVID-19 Data Science ChallengePurdue RCODI
This IronHacks Live: Info Session provided details on the Summer 2020: COVID-19 Data Science Challenge hosted by the IronHacks Team at the Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI) at Purdue University.
Digital Tools, Trends and Methodologies in the Humanities and Social SciencesShawn Day
This interactive seminar will explore trends and initiatives in the digital community of practice in the humanities and the social sciences. Participants will come away with a appreciation of from where the field has emerged and how it interacts with traditional disciplines. This seminar will be of interest to those in traditional disciplines as well as the wider academy as digital humanities is both collaborative and multidisciplinary in practise. It is intended to form a broad and easy introduction to the practise of digital humanities and will appeal especially to new scholar who is open to the potential to combine their traditional scholarship with digital tools and methodologies. It is *introductory* in nature.
Talk at the World Science Festival at Columbia, June 2, 2017: session on Big Data and Physics: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/programs/big-data-future-physics/
講師簡介:
林佑澂 創辦人│未來產房
Daniel Lin is the founder and CEO of FutureWard. He is a genetic engineer, educator, producer, entrepreneur, and bridge builder who is passionate about activating the innovation and startup ecosystems in Taiwan and connecting it to the rest of the world. He started one of the largest and most comprehensive makerspaces in Asia in 2014, and is now leading the strategic relationships with corporations, associations, and local governments to harness Taiwan's technical and manufacturing expertise to help solve intractable problems at FutureWard's Central coworking space.In an earlier life, Dan was conducting cancer research at Johns Hopkins Medical School, managing laboratories and testing immunotherapies. Upon his return to Taiwan, he segued into education. Writing and editing textbooks and testing programs before developing an English language learning program on TVBS. Before founding FutureWard, Dan was the international business development officer for Panel Group.
How to Entertain audiences using data led content - Trend Report Spring 2015infogr8
In this seasons trend report, we open the lens to best practice campaigns from across the digital landscape whilst seeking opinions from the data visualisation community on the hot trends coming our way. Campaigns include airbnb, UNESCO, Virgin, IBM, Nike and some exploratory thinking on Tesla. Thought leading opinions from the likes of Alberto Cairo, Georgia Lupi, Andy Kirk.
New challenges for digital scholarship and curation in the era of ubiquitous ...Derek Keats
A keynote presentation that I gave at the The 4th African Digital Scholarship and Curation Conference (see: http://www.nedicc.ac.za/test/Programme.aspx) on 16 May 2011.
https://bigscience.huggingface.co/
EN: Presentation of the BigScience project: a research initiative launched by HuggingFace and aiming to build a large language model (inspired by OpenAI and GPTx) over multiple languages and a very large processing cluster. The participants plan to investigate the dataset and the model from all angles: bias, social impact, capabilities, limitations, ethics, potential improvements, specific domain performances, carbon impact, general AI/cognitive research landscape.
FR : Présentation du projet Bigscience : un projet de recherche ouvert lancé par HuggingFace et qui a pour objectif de contruire un modèle de langue (ie un peu comme openAI et GPT-3) mais en explorant les problèmes liés au jeux de données et au modèle selon les angles des biais cognitifs, de l'impact social et environemental, des limites éthiques, des possibles gain de performance et de l'impact général de ce type d'approche lorsque le but n'est pas seulement "d'avoir un plus gros modèle".
The maker revolution is here. Everyone can be a maker. Children are creating all sorts of STEAM projects. Teachers from all levels are being trained to integrate maker-based projects in their classrooms. It is the Gold Rush of micro-prototyping technologies, robotics, 3D printing, laser cutting, electronic embroidery and embedded wearables. This is partly driven by the open-source electronic market emerging from Shenzhen, online DYI communities, data sharing over the Internet, but mostly by the worldwide movement driven by the 4th industrial revolution.
The next workforce will be faced with the new demands of a ubiquitous, mobile and ambient Internet of connected objects fed by AI and machine learning (Schwab, 2016). By 2025, the World Economic Forum (2015) predicts several technological tipping points, namely 10% of people wearing clothes connected to the internet, 1 trillion sensors also connected to the internet, the first robotic pharmacist, the first 3D printed car in production, and the first implantable mobile phone available commercially. This will bring unprecedented changes because they will arrive at a speed that will affect all our systems in all continents. They will force us to revise the nature of how we live, how we interact with each other and how we work.
Maker education is part of the solution to prepare the next generation workforce because it confronts learners to programming languages, robotics, additive manufacturing, prototyping, the internet of things and the sensing environment. More than just knowledge about these topics, learners have to develop competencies that will prepare them for a complex and ever-changing world that even experts cannot yet imagine. In this talk, I will present the global context for maker education and an operationalized definition of how to develop competencies in this context. I will also present results of several studies on this topic. More specifically, I will discuss fundamental maker knowledge, attitudes, resources, and how to design activities to mobilize competencies to complete multi-faceted projects or solve complex problems.
How to build and run a big data platform in the 21st centuryAli Dasdan
This tutorial was presented in the IEEE Big Data Conference in 2019. It shows that building and running a big data platform for both real-time streaming and batch data processing for all kinds of applications involving analytics, data science, reporting, and the like in today’s world can be as easy as following a checklist. We live in a fortunate time that many of the components needed are already available in the open source or as a service from commercial vendors. This tutorial shows how to put these components together in multiple sophistication levels to cover the spectrum from a basic reporting need to a full fledged operation across geographically distributed regions with business continuity measures in place. This tutorial provides enough information and checklists to the audience that it can also serve as a goto reference in the actual process of building and running.
Digital Tools, Trends and Methodologies in the Humanities and Social SciencesShawn Day
This interactive seminar will explore trends and initiatives in the digital community of practice in the humanities and the social sciences. Participants will come away with a appreciation of from where the field has emerged and how it interacts with traditional disciplines. This seminar will be of interest to those in traditional disciplines as well as the wider academy as digital humanities is both collaborative and multidisciplinary in practise. It is intended to form a broad and easy introduction to the practise of digital humanities and will appeal especially to new scholar who is open to the potential to combine their traditional scholarship with digital tools and methodologies. It is *introductory* in nature.
Talk at the World Science Festival at Columbia, June 2, 2017: session on Big Data and Physics: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/programs/big-data-future-physics/
講師簡介:
林佑澂 創辦人│未來產房
Daniel Lin is the founder and CEO of FutureWard. He is a genetic engineer, educator, producer, entrepreneur, and bridge builder who is passionate about activating the innovation and startup ecosystems in Taiwan and connecting it to the rest of the world. He started one of the largest and most comprehensive makerspaces in Asia in 2014, and is now leading the strategic relationships with corporations, associations, and local governments to harness Taiwan's technical and manufacturing expertise to help solve intractable problems at FutureWard's Central coworking space.In an earlier life, Dan was conducting cancer research at Johns Hopkins Medical School, managing laboratories and testing immunotherapies. Upon his return to Taiwan, he segued into education. Writing and editing textbooks and testing programs before developing an English language learning program on TVBS. Before founding FutureWard, Dan was the international business development officer for Panel Group.
How to Entertain audiences using data led content - Trend Report Spring 2015infogr8
In this seasons trend report, we open the lens to best practice campaigns from across the digital landscape whilst seeking opinions from the data visualisation community on the hot trends coming our way. Campaigns include airbnb, UNESCO, Virgin, IBM, Nike and some exploratory thinking on Tesla. Thought leading opinions from the likes of Alberto Cairo, Georgia Lupi, Andy Kirk.
New challenges for digital scholarship and curation in the era of ubiquitous ...Derek Keats
A keynote presentation that I gave at the The 4th African Digital Scholarship and Curation Conference (see: http://www.nedicc.ac.za/test/Programme.aspx) on 16 May 2011.
https://bigscience.huggingface.co/
EN: Presentation of the BigScience project: a research initiative launched by HuggingFace and aiming to build a large language model (inspired by OpenAI and GPTx) over multiple languages and a very large processing cluster. The participants plan to investigate the dataset and the model from all angles: bias, social impact, capabilities, limitations, ethics, potential improvements, specific domain performances, carbon impact, general AI/cognitive research landscape.
FR : Présentation du projet Bigscience : un projet de recherche ouvert lancé par HuggingFace et qui a pour objectif de contruire un modèle de langue (ie un peu comme openAI et GPT-3) mais en explorant les problèmes liés au jeux de données et au modèle selon les angles des biais cognitifs, de l'impact social et environemental, des limites éthiques, des possibles gain de performance et de l'impact général de ce type d'approche lorsque le but n'est pas seulement "d'avoir un plus gros modèle".
The maker revolution is here. Everyone can be a maker. Children are creating all sorts of STEAM projects. Teachers from all levels are being trained to integrate maker-based projects in their classrooms. It is the Gold Rush of micro-prototyping technologies, robotics, 3D printing, laser cutting, electronic embroidery and embedded wearables. This is partly driven by the open-source electronic market emerging from Shenzhen, online DYI communities, data sharing over the Internet, but mostly by the worldwide movement driven by the 4th industrial revolution.
The next workforce will be faced with the new demands of a ubiquitous, mobile and ambient Internet of connected objects fed by AI and machine learning (Schwab, 2016). By 2025, the World Economic Forum (2015) predicts several technological tipping points, namely 10% of people wearing clothes connected to the internet, 1 trillion sensors also connected to the internet, the first robotic pharmacist, the first 3D printed car in production, and the first implantable mobile phone available commercially. This will bring unprecedented changes because they will arrive at a speed that will affect all our systems in all continents. They will force us to revise the nature of how we live, how we interact with each other and how we work.
Maker education is part of the solution to prepare the next generation workforce because it confronts learners to programming languages, robotics, additive manufacturing, prototyping, the internet of things and the sensing environment. More than just knowledge about these topics, learners have to develop competencies that will prepare them for a complex and ever-changing world that even experts cannot yet imagine. In this talk, I will present the global context for maker education and an operationalized definition of how to develop competencies in this context. I will also present results of several studies on this topic. More specifically, I will discuss fundamental maker knowledge, attitudes, resources, and how to design activities to mobilize competencies to complete multi-faceted projects or solve complex problems.
How to build and run a big data platform in the 21st centuryAli Dasdan
This tutorial was presented in the IEEE Big Data Conference in 2019. It shows that building and running a big data platform for both real-time streaming and batch data processing for all kinds of applications involving analytics, data science, reporting, and the like in today’s world can be as easy as following a checklist. We live in a fortunate time that many of the components needed are already available in the open source or as a service from commercial vendors. This tutorial shows how to put these components together in multiple sophistication levels to cover the spectrum from a basic reporting need to a full fledged operation across geographically distributed regions with business continuity measures in place. This tutorial provides enough information and checklists to the audience that it can also serve as a goto reference in the actual process of building and running.
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Requirements Engineering for the HumanitiesShawn Day
This workshop explores how requirements engineering can be employed by digital and non-digital humanities scholars (and others) to conceptualise and communicate a research project.
requirementsEngineeringAs the field of digital humanities has evolved, one of the biggest challenges has been getting the marrying technical expertise with humanities scholarly practice to successfully deliver sustainable and sound digital projects. At its core this is a communications exercise. However, to communicate effectively demands an ability to effectively translate, define and find clarity in your own mind.
Google Tools for Digital Humanities ScholarsShawn Day
In this seminar we have introduced many lesser known, but potentially even more useful tools to scholars such as the particularly powerful Google Fusion Tables and Google Trends to the simple but powerful Google Keep among others. This just scrapes the surface with a series of tools that evolve everyday and with new tools emerging and other fading away after contributing to our scholarly imagination.
Mapping your data can help to provide new insights on your research findings. However, many scholars are put off by the steep learning curve demanded by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) such as ArcGIS from ESRI. New and simple tools have become available that offer sophisticated output without extensive training. In fact, tools such as Google Maps, Google Earth, Open Street Map among others can offer immediate returns in a matter of hours where tasks in the past required, weeks, months and even years of training.
A brief introduction to Metadata, it’s value and how it can be leveraged in Omeka as a digital narrative tool; and to evaluate what digital narrative tools - such as Omeka or others - may be of use in sharing your research – and telling your story.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
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The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
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This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
2. Objectives
‣ Take a look at where we’ve been;
‣ Talk about going forward;
‣ Discuss larger research trajectories.
3. A Few Foundation Frameworks
‣ GraphViz
‣ R Programming Language
‣ JIT (JavaScript Infovis
Toolkit)
‣ Protovis
‣ D3
‣ Processing
‣ Tableau
‣ Prefuse
‣ Gephi
‣ WEAVE (http://
www.oicweave.org/)
!
‣ Exhibit
4. GraphViz
‣ An Open Source
Framework
‣ Mature (1988)
‣ AT&T Labs
‣ Used as a basis for subsequent
‣ A great prototyping and starting point
!
!
‣ http://www.graphviz.org/
5. R Programming Language
‣ Geared towards statistical analysis
‣ In recent times has had developed into an engine
supporting some powerful graphics frameworks
‣ Open Source
‣ Typically Command Line but a variety of GUI editors
available
‣ > Jeff Rydberg-Cox: R for the Digital Humanities
6. JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit (JIT)
‣ JIT Demos (http://thejit.org/demos/)
‣ The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit is a complete set of tools to
create Interactive DataVisualizations for theWeb. It
includes JSON loading, animation, 2D point and graph
classes and some predefined tree visualization methods.
‣ Smaller datasets in a clean form
‣ Related and Aggregated/Categorised Data
10. ProtoVis
‣ Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG.
It takes a graphical approach to data visualization,
composing custom views of data with simple graphical
primitives like bars and dots. These primitives are called
marks, and each mark encodes data visually through
dynamic properties such as color and position.
‣ Jerome Cukier: ProtoVis Tutorial
‣ Development shifted to D3
‣ ProtoVis still very accessible and usable
13. D3
‣ D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document
Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven
transformations to the document. As a trivial example,
you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table from an
array of numbers. Or, use the same data to create an
interactive SVG bar chart with smooth transitions and
interaction.
‣ Open Source
15. Processing
‣ Now we are getting serious...
‣ Ben Fry
‣ Like R has a serious statistical bent
‣ Has a client and development environment, but deploys easily to the
web using processing.js
‣ Large andVL datasets
‣ Good with related data
‣ Serious support for aesthetics
‣ Modelling Environment
‣ http://processing.org/
‣ http://www.openprocessing.org/
19. Tableau
‣ Commercial
‣ Offers a Free Public Application
‣ Encourages sharing and focusses on building a narrative around
visualisation of your research data
‣ Education and Non-Commercial Licenses available
‣ Mature and evolving rapidly to demonstrate the newest and most
exciting visualisation types
‣ And our friendsWattenberg andViegas seem to be onboard
22. Gephi
‣ We Looked at it two weeks ago
‣ Open Source
‣ Mapping andVisualising Relationships and Networks
‣ An outstandingVisual Development Environment
‣ Multiplatform
‣ Extensible!!
‣ https://gephi.org/
23. Points of Departure
‣ DIRT (Digital Research Tools)
‣ Visualisation in Education
!
‣ Getting Started with R
‣ Using R in DH
‣ MONK
‣ Data Journalism @ Stanford
24. "If you are not making anything,
you are not…a digital humanist."
!
- Stephen Ramsay
26. Sample
‣ Production versus Reproduction of Knowledge
‣ The promise of the digital is not in the way it allows us to ask new
questions because of digital tools or because of new methodologies
made possible by those tools.
The promise is in the way the digital reshapes the representation,
sharing, and discussion of knowledge. We are no longer bound by
the physical demands of printed books and paper journals, no longer
constrained by production costs and distribution friction, no longer
hampered by a top-down and unsustainable business model. And we
should no longer be content to make our work public achingly slowly
along ingrained routes, authors and readers alike delayed by
innumerable gateways limiting knowledge production and sharing.
27. Digital Arts and Humanities Communities of Practise?
Type 1: Humanities computing subfield, work with computers dating back to the 1990s (and
earlier)
Type 1.5: Appearance of the "alt-ac/digital humanities tendency," emerging around 2008/2009
positioning the digital solving the jobs crisis among humanities PhDs with scholars pursuing
broader range of intellectual jobs beyond professorships.
Visions of the "big tent," of an opening up of scholarly activity.
Type 2: Recent emergence of critique and backlash (coming from a media studies/cultural
studies orientation) against digital arts+humanities as a kind of inside-job sabotage of
academia by neoliberal forces and ideologies dressed up to seem like liberation from
hierarchy, but in fact smuggling in invidious forces: the deskilling of academic laborers; the
assessment-crazed "show me the data" loss of control over the classroom; the loss of control
over the publication process; MOOC-ville; and, worst of all, the mirroring at the micro-level of
academe what are macro-level operations of neoliberalism, surveillance, corporatization, and
inequality in contemporary society.
- Michael Kramer in response to Stephen Ramsay
31. 1st wave of digital work was quantitative,
mobilizing the search and retrieval powers
of the database, automating corpus
linguistics, stacking hypercards into
critical arrays.
32. The second wave is qualitative,
interpretive, experiential, emotive,
generative in character.
37. by emphasizing design, multimediality, and the experiential,
it seeks to expand the compass of the affective range to
which scholarship can aspire
38. Process is the new god; not product. Anything that stands in
the way of the perpetual mash‐up and remix stands in the
way of the digital revolution
40. Digital Humanists recognize curation as a central feature of
the future of the Humanities disciplines
!
It recasts the scholar as curator and the curator as scholar
!
Curation means making arguments through objects as well
as words, images, and sounds
42. Selling A DAH Project
1. Have a Concrete Idea.
1. Find a few successful project models of what you want to do
in order to demonstrate feasibility.
2. You should look for examples both inside and outside of your
discipline. Matthew Kirschenbaum has an article “What is
Digital Humanities andWhat’s it Doing in English
Departments?” for English folks. If you only have a vague
sense of an idea that excites you, let it simmer until you can
learn more and become prepared to answer tough
questions.
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2. Get the Facts.
If some of your ideas come under attack, you should be
prepared to defend them if you are committed to, say,
sharing your work online with open-access.
Steve Hitchcock maintains a webliography on the open-
access question that addresses both sides of the debate
(though many trend towards showing greater citation
under open-access).
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3. Do It.
Moving from planning to learning and doing can be the
greatest challenge, but if you get something rolling and make a
commitment you must follow through.
Everything might not make it into your final project, but your
efforts will provide valuable experience.
There is also something to be said about asking for forgiveness
rather than permission.
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- Alex Galazara