Reading:
- Joshua Brown, “History and the Web, From the Illustrated Newspaper to Cyberspace: Visual Technologies and Interaction in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries,” Rethinking History, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June 2004).
- Philip J. Ethington, “Los Angeles and the Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge: A Multimedia Essay to Accompany the December Issue of The American Historical Review.”
- Explore Joshua Brown, Ithaca, A Graphic Novel in Several Parts.
Group:
- Your group should be prepared to present a “research strategy” to the class on Monday.
- This strategy should include the following:
- a statement of the historical question you seek to answer
- a review of how your group divides labor
- an overview of the data, archives, and other primary sources that you plan to use at the this stage
- be sure that spatial history, data mining and analysis, textual analysis, and visual and aural culture are represented in this overview.
- be sure you have a sense of the chronological scope of the data. Ask yourself if the data will be broad enough to address your question, but also manageable within our timeframe for producing these projects.
- This strategy should include the following:
Model Graphical Representations of Data
- Student post reviews
- Other examples
Reading
- Frederick W. Gibbs and Trevor J. Owens, “The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing,” in Writing History in the Digital Age, 2012.
- What does “hermeneutics” mean?
- New methods of interacting with data demand new transparency from historical presentation
- Process important (methodology)
- Why?
- What is potential cost to narrative history?
- What are data?
- Evidence for historical argument
- More than evidence: creation of data, interaction with data, interpretation of data
- Combining different kinds of datasets enables “new way to triangulate historical knowledge.” Is this new?
- “Historians must treat data as text….”
- Visualizing data
- “Aesthetic provocation”; dynamic process
- The “value of screwing around”: quantitative data more than just math and statistics: discovering, framing, identifying trends
- Failure
Group Work
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“The second presidential debate in graphs,” Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog, Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/10/17/the-second-presidential-debate-in-graphs/
This graph represents the effects of a smoker who decides to quit smoking. It lays out exactly what your body does and how it heals as you’ve had your last cigarette. This graph is very powerful because it is very easy to read and it sends a very strong message. The image on the top righthand corner is also an attention grabber and can be used as motivation for someone to quit smoking.
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www.270towin.com
This screenshot of a map comes from the political forecast website 270 to Win.
While the map that I’ve included strongly presents the proposed electoral votes for each candidate in the upcoming Presidential election, the most powerful tool within the website is its option to filter through past years election, as well as a host of other interesting map options. The website provides a comprehensive look at the elections now, and past, by utilizing simple graphics which display a world of multi-dimensional data.
This is picture above shows how much money different countries are spending on their military. Although it is in 2011 you can get a good idea who is on the top of the list(United States) and which countries follow.
For reasons why I think this is a powerful graphical representation is simple… Look at the numbers and the country that corresponds with it!
http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/stats-on-human-rights/statistics-on-war-conflict/statistics-on-military-spending/
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“The Cost of the 2012 U.S Elections” By Sam Burgoon on Creditseason.com
October 19, 2012
This data represent the cost of the 2012 President election.
This is a powerful graphical representation of data due to the following reasons.
- It put it in perspective with previous election costs.
- It show where the funds are coming from and how its being spent.
- Its unbiased in the sense that it show both the Democrat and Republican spending.
- Its also go into general detail on where those funds are coming, like which state, industrials and sector contribute the most funds; Show top contributor
- It presented the data in a colorful and yet simple ways, without going over the top with complex design.
Source: CreditSeason.com
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In this graphic by ThinkProgress.org, the issue of paid maternity leave in the United States is called into question as it is compared to that of other nations.
Geniusly, the number of weeks of paid maternity leave are designed in a circle, from most to least, with corresponding colors of the rainbow, making it bright, colorful and easy to read.
Though the numbers may be staggering (if I were to have a baby, I’d really like to have one in Canada!) the way the data is presented is very appealing.
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