Week 1: Introductions!
After class read:
- Elyse Graham (2017) Introduction: Data Visualisation and the Humanities, English Studies, 98:5, 449-458, DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2017.1332021
- Susan Hockey, (2006) “The rendering of humanities information in a digital context: Current trends and future developments”, Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 58 Issue: 1/2,pp.89-101, https://doi.org/10.1108/00012530610648699
Slides:
Can be found here.
5-minute visualization:
At the end of class I asked you to put your instincts and faculties at work by visualizing a short gift-giving story. You can find this little story in the slides (which you can find above). You can also, instead, take the xml-snippet, that represents a similar story in a different data format.
Please take some pen and paper, read the story (or xml) for 2 minutes, and then draw it out in 5. If you take much longer than that, you are probably overdoing it.
Please digitize your drawing (take a photo) and upload it through Brightspace on Thursday 15-9 at the latest, so that I have time to look at them. The assignment will not be graded (although it may or may not count towards your class participation), but we will discuss them in class!
Week 2: Pre-attentive Features and Cognition
After class read:
- Chapter 1 of Information Visualization: Perception for Design (Ware 2012).
Slides:
Can be found here.
Week 3: Colours, Fonts and Composition
After class read:
Slides:
Can be found here.