I was supposed to present these as part of the Information Visualization and Museum Practice (http://mcn2010.pbworks.com/Information-Visualization-and-Museum-Practice) panel at MCN2010. Thanks to Piotr Adamczyk for stepping in when I was unable to arrive in time.
2. Sources
of
Inspira/on
• John
Tukey
–
Exploratory
Data
Analysis
h<p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Exploratory_data_analysis
• Edward
TuDe
h<p://www.edwardtuDe.com/tuDe/
• Ben
Schneidermen
h<p://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben
See
also:
Jeffrey
Heer
A
Brief
History
of
Data
Visualiza/on
h<p://is.gd/gmGiY
3. Wa<enberg/Viegas
• Baby
name
voyager
h<p://www.babynamewizard.com
• Dynamic
visualiza/ons
that
allow
for
explora/on
• “democra/za/on”
of
visualiza/on
techniques
• “vernacular
visualiza/on”
Mar/n
Wa<enberg
h<p://www.bewitched.com/
13. Cultural
Analy/cs
• Comparison
between
128
pain/ngs
by
Piet
Mondrian
(from
1904-‐1917)
and
168
pain/ngs
by
Mark
Rothko
(from
1934-‐1970).
• X
axis
-‐
brightness
mean
Y
axis
-‐
satura/on
mean
• One
interes/ng
thing
revealed
by
this
visualiza/on:
in
the
1940s
Rothko
starts
at
exactly
the
same
part
of
brightness/satura/on
space
where
Mondrian
arrives
by
1917.
• h<p://www.flickr.com/photos/culturevis/4396210509
14. Spa/al
History
Project
• h<p://www.stanford.edu/group/spa/alhistory/cgi-‐bin/site/index.php
19. • YouTube
MCN
2010
channel
h<p://bit.ly/dpFYlw
• Richard
J.
Urban
Graduate
School
of
Library
&
Informa/on
Science
University
of
Illinois
rjurban@illinois
h<p://www.richardurban.net