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Parallel Sets

Parallel Sets is a tool and visualization method for exploring categorical data. Multidimensional data is going to be hard to present without significant design work and hard to interpret for most information seekers. There is a learning curve with these graphs, but once you get used to them they really are very rich and easy to query.

European Paintings: Medium, On View, Component
European Paintings: Medium, Not on View / On View, Component
American Paintings and Sculpture: Medium, On View, DateEnd
American Paintings and Sculpture: Medium, On View / Not On View, DateEnd
American Paintings and Sculpture: DateEnd, On View, Medium

I think the datasets may have stretched the tool a bit. Labels and scaling got a little wonky, but once the data was filtered to a more reasonable set of values along a dimension, brilliant. The order in which the variables are added to the visualization can change the presentation dramatically which really helps in answering different sets of questions.

This could be getting closer to a chart that would be useful for at-a-glance comparisons across collections.

//TODO: There are similar presentations that might suggest how to augment the design for museum data.

Posted in Metropolitan Museum of Art, Visualization Tagged: charts

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Pop-Up Party on the Lowline!
Party with us on July 28th, 6-8pm

Party with us on July 28th, 6-8pm

DDC09 students have used all our wisdom and know-how collected over the course of this summer to plan our final project – A Pop-Up Party! The party will include ice-cold lemonade (delivered via pulley system to both Highline and Lowline visitors), a fort for contemplating life, games, live musical performances, a movie theater for two, and a hanging garden and edible plant giveaway!

Join us!
Tuesday, July 28th, 6-8pm
19th st between 10th and 11th Ave (beneath the Highline)

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Stephanie

Stephanie is the Education Coordinator at Eyebeam, which means she is lucky enough to spend every day of DDC09 with this amazing cast of characters. In addition to seeing what these fancy teens can do, she enjoys long walks on the beach, sunsets, and kittens.

Read more here.

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Malwina!

Teaching Assistant for DDC09 – Stay-tuned for a complete bio!

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New Work at Jen Bekman in Summer Reading

New laser cut work from the "Summer Reading" show at Jen Bekman gallery in NYC.

Yes, the cut goes all the way through all of the phonebooks.

GOOGLE

SPEED DIAL

COAST to COAST

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Day 9, 10, 11: Tuesday, July 21 – Thursday, July 23

Artists: Adriana Young (artist researcher / activist) + Christina Kral (digital and interactive narrative, Eyebeam Alum)

Workshop: Research history of and making of the High Line in its current form. Students will then consider missing elements, and rewrite the narrative by creating a Mid Line. This aspect of DDC will include a strong emphasis on documentation.

Critical Frameworks: Urban research, creative use of public space

Resources: – http://guerrillagardening.org/ – Mobile Art: http://www.artshantyprojects.org – http://www.huongngo.com/ – http://unhoused.livejournal.com/ – Shelter Corps (part of Version09 – http://www.versionfest.org/) http://bit.ly/shelter-corps

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Day 8: Monday, July 20

Artist: Sarah Cook (Eyebeam Research Partner, Curatorial Masterclass organizer): Curator

Workshop: Students will discuss and learn about curatorial considerations for planning an event or exhibition. We might curate the window gallery at Eyebeam, using creations and documentation from the previous two weeks, and then plan for the coming final presentation.

Critical Frameworks: Packaging your art, dissemination, production, publication, audience communication.

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Speculative visualizations, continued

SunBurst, IORing

I’ve been surprised by how many hierarchies can be extracted from aggregated museum object data. I’ve always liked the look of John Stasko’s SunBursts. Like the treemaps, another space-filling hierarchical display, but radial and a bit mesmerizing when the interaction is done just right. I repurposed some of the arc diagram code and made a quick SunBurst processing sketch. I mashed up / pared down some other visualizations into another really basic sketch. I’d like to think I can combine a few more visualizations in interesting ways (e.g. Bloom Diagram) – still just sketches rather than full applications; not done exploring.

All of the visualizations, the more practical and the speculative, are meant to augment collections navigation and search in some way. More for browsing than directed search tasks, but maybe a bit of both… Reading Marti Hearst’s great survey, Search User Interfaces (ch. 10 in particular).





//TODO: Refine one of the sketches to include some basic interface widgets. And some event triggers – though the visualizations are starting to  look OK, interaction is going to take a while to get right.

http://searchuserinterfaces.com/book/sui_ch10_visualization.html

Posted in Visualization Tagged: charts

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New images of the Middle East/ images of the New Middle East

The project is to create visuals, edited footage, and algorithmic animations to respond to the music of Guy Manoukian.

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concert at Beiteddine coming up

Guy Manoukian concert
August 9th, 2009
Beiteddine Festival
“images of the ‘new middle east’ ” is a commission by international artist and composer Guy Manoukian for an upcoming concert in Beiteddine, Lebanon. Beiteddine Festival is one of the oldest and finest festivals in the Middle East and is held in a 200-year-old palace in Beiteddine, built by emir [...]

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