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Meetings Stub Page [mx-stub]

7:30am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee

9:00am – 9:30am Expectations and Introduction

9:30am – 10:30am Data Visualization Introduction Panel
Panelists:
Jean Bauer, Digital Humanities Librarian, Brown University
Carolin Ferwerda, Instructional Technologist, Wellesley College
Amy Papaelias, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design / Foundation, State University of New York at New Paltz
Cassandra Pattanayak, Guthman Director of the Quantitative Analysis Institute, Wellesley College

What is Data Visualization? Why use it? Best Practices. Common concepts that apply regardless of tools. Examples. Different approaches.

10:30am - 10:45am Break

10:45am – 11:30am Data Visualization can be Beautiful and Useful - Graphic Design for Data Visualizations
Speakers:
Amy Papaelias, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design / Foundation, State University of New York at New Paltz
Cassandra Pattanayak, Guthman Director of the Quantitative Analysis Institute, Wellesley College

What makes a data visualization both functional and visually engaging? This session will provide overview of basic visual design principles that can be applied to data visualization techniques and will discuss the necessary balance between aesthetic choice, clear data presentation and user experience. We will review several successful (and not-so successful) examples of data visualizations in order to consider how these principles and techniques might apply to your own data visualization projects.

11:30am – 12:15pm Data Visualization in the Humanities
Speaker: Jean Bauer, Digital Humanities Librarian, Brown University

Using visualizations from exemplary projects, this talk will discuss the ways humanities scholars have interpreted their sources as data and how visualizing that data has enhanced their research, teaching, and publication. Along the way, we will touch on the types of data we can extract from humanities sources and the crucial difference between using visualization for discovery vs. creating a visual argument.

12:15pm – 1:00pm Lunch

1:00pm – 3:30pm Hands on Workshop Time
Participants will have supported workshop time to plan, build, share, and compare visualizations to gain a better sense of how to use them in all areas of scholarly communication.

3:30pm End

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