{"id":344,"date":"2011-02-21T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/?p=344"},"modified":"2011-02-21T15:40:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T20:40:18","slug":"visualizations-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2011\/02\/21\/visualizations-and-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizations and Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing a lot of interest and examples of data visualization coming via the blogosphere.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stanford has released <a href=\"http:\/\/vis.stanford.edu\/wrangler\/\" target=\"_blank\">Data Wrangler<\/a> in alpha, open source <a href=\"http:\/\/gephi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gephi<\/a> is in beta, and Google is not allowing users to upload their own data to their <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/visualize-your-own-data-in-google.html\">visualization tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also interesting to see the artistic bent of many of the popular visualizations.\u00a0 Check out the comments below the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/facebook-engineering\/visualizing-friendships\/469716398919\">Facebook visualization<\/a>, for example.\u00a0 There are also entire sites with a definite artistic bent to the data visualizations.\u00a0 Two of my favorite are <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\" target=\"_blank\">infosthetics.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/datavisualization.ch\" target=\"_blank\">datavisualization.ch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For us, this seems like a great potential cross disciplinary project for students in sciences or courses with a stats component to work with art students in order to make a visual argument.\u00a0\u00a0 I know we already have a large number of science classes who make posters each semester as part of their presentation.\u00a0\u00a0 Art is a little trickier since we don&#8217;t have a graphics design course.\u00a0 While the digital photography students certainly have applicable skills and knowledge, it&#8217;s hard to imagine a final project that would fit into their course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing a lot of interest and examples of data visualization coming via the blogosphere.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stanford has released Data Wrangler in alpha, open source Gephi is in beta, and Google is not allowing users to upload their own data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2011\/02\/21\/visualizations-and-art\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8149],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}