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    data / visual analysis& digital humanities

    zoe borovsky

    [email protected]

    mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]
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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

    http://www.monkproject.org/http://www.monkproject.org/
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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

    http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/portalhttp://portal.tapor.ca/portal/portal
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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

    http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/homehttp://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