Workshop Session 1.2: Data Visualisation Interactive Activity
Resources from the session.
The recording for this session of the workshop can be found here:
Please cite this recording as:
#DataCreativities (2020): #DataCreativities 2020 Workshop: Session 1.2. https://doi.org/10.26188/13457390
Resources from the session.
This interactive session demonstrates how we can very simply visualize unstructured data, using a tool such as Voyant. This visualization tool gives us a quick and easy way to explore a distant reading of text. We’re asking:
What is knowledge, what is data?
To answer this question, we generated some unstructured data as a collective – all of us participating copied a paragraph of text from something we have been writing, or a recent abstract for a paper or journal into a shared google doc.
What we learned is that data doesn’t need to be structured, we don’t have to put data into a tabular format. Visualisations can help in early explorations as they give us a distant view of the frequency of word usage, for example in a wordcloud.
Visualisations can also help in communicating research data, an interactive wordcloud might provide windows into your research for an audience who want to dive into particular words. We need to give a warning about the impact of wordclouds as a visualization format - humans are poor estimators of area; they are useful, decorative and easy but not always appropriate for precise reading of frequency data.
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