Friday Evening Talk

1. Book: The emergence of digital humanities by Steven Jones (this speaker)
2. Book: Graphs Maps Trees, Frank Moretti (not sure on name)
3. Book: To save everything, click here

stephenejones.org

Saturday Morning Talk

• Chen and Floridi, An analysis of in formation in visualization, Synthese, Springer 2012
• Chen, an information-theoretic framework for visualization, 2010
• Larkin and Simon, 1987
• Kahneman, Thinking fast and thinking slow
• false visializaions: when journalists get data viz wrong (Krum)
• max fürbringer, 1888, diagrams representing the phylogenetic tree of birds
• takeaways
  • from wow! to why?
  • visualizations entail compromise
  • we need more graphical standards
• need renderization methods that consistently produce the same visualization
• design for information from meirelles

Salons Project Talk

• Melanie Conroy
• Palladio… used heavily to display viz
  • talk with her about this work