Reading
The material on the following websites is important and should be browsed either before or after studying the text in this section.
Hermeneutic Visualization in Literary Studies
This web site describes, explains, and demonstrates Stereoscope, a web-based prototype visualization system for hermeneutic exploration of textual meaning and for constructing arguments about texts (Kleymann & Stange, 2021). This highly interactive visualization enables readers to explore text in new ways through an exceptionally rich graphical user interface with a wide range of data exploration features. The Stereoscope project is part of a larger project, The Three-Dimensional Dynamic Data Visualisation and Exploration for Digital Humanities Research, or 3DH [http://threedh.net/]. 3DH is a large-scale, international research pilot project funded by Hamburg’s Ministry for Science and Research. Johanna Drucker is an associate member of this work. From the description on the website, the project “…focuses on the dynamic visualisation and exploration of Humanities data from a digital humanities perspective. The ‘third dimension’ of the 3DH approach is not necessarily that of the traditional spa[t]ial z-axis in physical objects – rather, we define this as the expression of the semantic and hermeneutic depth which characterises humanistic phenomena.”
Data Visualization Design and the Art of Depicting Reality
December 10, 2015
This website describes an exhibit featured at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City that explores the intersection of realism in visual art and data. As described on the website, “Data can be a medium for digital realism” and “Digital data collected from our daily lives can describe, depict, and represent facts and truths about ourselves and our surroundings. Digital data allows us to picture not only what we can readily see, but also the things that aren’t visible.” The exhibit demonstrates many of the principles of what Lev Manovich calls “direct visualization”, discussed below, which incorporates representations of real world objects into visualizations, instead of “reducing” these objects to graphical (specifically spatial) primitives.
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The following material is optional. However, interested readers are encouraged to peruse it.
Simple Word Cloud in Python
Zolzaya Luvsandorj
June 20, 2020
This web article provides a step-by-step walkthrough of generating and displaying word clouds in Python.
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Networks, Maps, and Time: Visualizing Historical Networks Using Palladio
Charting Culture
(Melanie Conroy, 2021)
Conroy, M. (2021). Networks, Maps, and Time: Visualizing Historical Networks Using Palladio. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, 15(1).
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The material on the following websites is optional. However, interested readers are encouraged to browse these sites.
Visual Complexity
This website provides examples of visualization of complex networks.
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Flight Patterns
Aaron Koblin
2005
This website describes an exhibit at the Art Institute Chicago that displays air traffic patterns and densities of flights in the United States over a 24-hour period. The visualization is a time-lapse animation that employs data visualization (data about the flights) implemented with an open-source programming environment.
Zoom Out, Zoom In: Looking at Digital Art Through Media Visualization
Software Culture. The Common Grammar of Media
Lev Manovich
2010
Giulia Simi, DIGIMAG, Issue 54, May 2010
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Zooming Into an Instagram City: Reading the Local Through Social Media
Nadav Hochman and Lev Manovich
View: Zooming Into an Instagram City: Reading the Local Through Social Media
Python Code
This section uses the Python code WordCloud_Example_2.py (also available as the Jupyter Notebook WordCloud_Example_2.ipynb) and HermeneuticVisualization_Example.py, which requires the data file composers.csv