In this unit we will explore:
- the purposes and rationale behind data visualization
- various methods of communicating historical data in visual forms
Tuesday, February 23
Introduction to Data Visualization
Readings
Don’t forget to annotate these with Hypothesis in our “SRU Digital History” group
- Gibbs, Frederick W. “New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations.”The American Historian, 2016.
- Thiebault, John. “Visualizations and Historical Arguments.” Writing History in the Digital Age, March 23, 2012.
- Tom Scheinfeldt, “Where’s the Beef?” Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions?
- Data Visualization: Basic Principles
The links below don’t require Hypothesis annotations but are, frankly, pretty cool, and should be reviewed
- “A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods” Visual Literacy
- “Old Data Visualizations.” Data Visualization, April 25, 2009. https://apandre.wordpress.com/library/oldcharts/
- Types of Data Visualizations and Functions, Data Viz Project
- Spencer Roberts, “Spreadsheets for Historians“
Thursday, February 25
Data Visualization Practicum
For In-Class Use:
Google Ngram Viewer (but also: The Pitfalls of Ngram)
