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
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/
Wa<enberg/Viegas
• Many eyes
FlowingMedia
• h<p://flowingmedia.com/
Jeffrey Heer
• Tools: protovis.org
Tracing Genealogical Data with TimeNets
h<p://vis.stanford.edu/papers//menets
Jeffrey Heer
• Collabora/ve visualiza/on
Visualiza/on in the Humani/es
• Franco MoreX
Map of Sherlock Holmes’ Inves/ga/ons
MONK Project
• h<p://www.monkproject.org/
Cultural Analy/cs
• Lev Manovich, Director SoDware Studies Ini/a/ve h<p://lab.soDwarestudies.com
• Visual Analysis Toolkit
• GigaPixel Presenter
h<p://www.flickr.com/photos/culturevis/4038907270
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
Spa/al History Project
• h<p://www.stanford.edu/group/spa/alhistory/cgi-‐bin/site/index.php
Mitchell Whitelaw-‐ Visible Archives
• h<p://visiblearchive.blogspot.com/
Commons Explorer
• h<p://visiblearchive.blogspot.com/2010/03/commonsexplorer.html
Urban, Adamczyck, Twidale
Adamczyck
• 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