stereotypic tv-series plotlines, visualised: https://oidamen.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/tv-series/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151016-data-points-alberto-cairo-interview/

visualising shakespeare: http://www.thomaswilhelm.eu/shakespeare/output/twelfthnight.html

more visualizing shakespeare (Like @timfinnegan’s awesome link above, this one takes advantage of Folger Digital Texts. This one also uses JSTOR Labs’ Understanding Shakespeare API. )

http://labs.jstor.org/showcase/#!character-heatmaps

trying my hand at sonifying various things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn2VM5gX1I0

speaking of sonification @shawngraham I saw a rather mind-blowing talk at UMD the other week by Dr. JoAnnKuchera-Morin from USCB on her AlloSphere (go to the 40min mark to see it in action): http://vid.umd.edu/detsmediasite/Play/14bcc5421c7841e5996f62c377bd46531d

Quasi-visualization related: calssifying music genre via MIDI file entropy: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542506/musical-genres-classified-using-the-entropy-of-midi-files/?utm_campaign=socialsync&utm_medium=social-post&utm_source=facebook cc: @raffazizzi

@shawngraham How does the temporal dimension of this sonificaiton map to the topics? Are we “paging” through the diary at a certain rate?

I :heart: that it is able to distinguish between classical classical styles. A lot of these studies just stuff 500 years in one “classical” category

@mdlincoln: yep, 3 secs/year.

@shawngraham: wonderful

it kinda works

Via @mia - a nice discussion of visualizing multidimensional data http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2015/10/visualizing-high-dimensional-image.html

As a Friday night experiment, I have scripted blender to show the known lengths of Roman amphitheaters in a stack. Then I uploaded the exported OBJ file to http://p3d.in. Results at https://p3d.in/1yryf .

https://openvisconf.com/ openvisconf has a call for speakers up! it’s being held in an imax theatre inside an aquarium, so like really big screen and lots of :fish:

Nice map/visualization of nuclear detonations. http://www.businessinsider.com/map-every-nuclear-bomb-explosion-history-2015-10 . Not sure if there’s a version not embedded in that site. @paregorios, for <#C0CHAP5JM> as well?

\me writes note to self to include “lots of :fish:” in any upcoming CFPs

@sfsheath: neat use of blender as a kind of data visualization, but one that really seems to allude to the physical source of your information - the ovals alluding to but not replicating the ampitheater shape. Do you have date information as well? I could imaging bringing in motion as a data dimension here…

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Comment: I'm continuing to play around with stacking ovals that represent the length of the major axis of Roman amphitheaters. That's the Colosseum in Rome at the bottom. 189 meters. This version is rendered with Blender's Freestyle Non-Photographic Renderer (NPR). As noted by <@U0CH3Q2K1> , next stage is to start selecting by date, region, etc. I'm thinking of showing different stacks next to each other, perhaps usefully positioned on a map, and maybe with animation. But it will take some time to get to all that. And yeah, I'll add text to the graphic soon as well.

@sfsheath: I’ll put in a request to do a 3d printed version of that :simple_smile:

@jeresig: yes, i think this could turn into something that would be fun to print. At some point I’ll make an OBJ file for download. That way someone can beat me to the printing if so inspired. Again, this is an incremental project that I work on as the topic pops up. I teach Roman Archaeology so will use this next week in class.

@sfsheath: fantastic, good luck! :simple_smile:

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Comment: Overlaying page layouts from HMT's Venetus A MS.

@sfsheath: maybe rest it on a grid of 1 meter squares, hinting one human per square?

i’d like to help build a 1904 dublin in opensim: http://ulyssespages.blogspot.com/2015/04/dublin-vr-volunteers-needed.html

hi folks - I’m experimenting with sonification, which is just visualization with a beat. Here’s twenty topics in John Adams’ diary (topic model via MALLET) turned into music… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikqRXtI3JeA A post eventually will follow.

I get a kick out of the fact that the software you’re mixing with happens to visualize the MIDI you created. Makes me wonder what it’d be like to compare a plot generated directly from the topic model to the vis. transformed via sonification

like a series of parallel sparklines?

could be, yeah

@shawngraham: I know very little about sonification or topic modelling, but this all brings to mind Stockhausen’s scores describing the tones to be played, amplitude sweeps etc.

@fmcc cool. I’ll check that out.

fyi: @mdlincoln is giving a talk today at my-place-of-work http://mith.umd.edu/podcasts/dd-fall-2015-matthew-lincoln/ 12:30 ET livestreamed at http://original.livestream.com/mithdigitaldialogues

via @shawngraham history class visualises 1939 in minecraft: http://www.processhistory.org/?p=693

@timfinnegan: Thanks for drawing our attention to this post. Looks like a great EdTech idea.

Is there a general consensus that Minecraft is a better staring tool for student thinking about virtual worlds than http://opensimulator.org? W/better meaning: more practical, more likely to lead to success?

^^ @shawngraham

@sfsheath it looks like minecraft is much lower res unless you build really big? my goal for 1904 dublin is to let people keep adding detail but always have on offer an educational space they can explore without knowing how to build

my class worked with minecraft - https://github.com/shawngraham/hist3812a to try to understand how good history could be expressed there.

One thing they all agreed on, blockiness wasn’t so much of an issue, since it forced them to think about bigger issues. The low barrier to building, and the use of various helper utilities/scripts (I’ve got some on http://electricarchaeology.ca ) let them do some pretty neat things. The github folder contains three of the best worlds the class built last time around.

@sfsheath I haven’t played with opensimulator, but in my class when I brought up Second Life like stuff, there was much snickering - an association with pervy sims (the CBC did an ‘expose’ a while back that periodically resurfaces) seemed to have tainted that whole thing for them. Which perhaps says more about us than opensimulator, of course.

the detail i’m aiming for includes realistic labels on cans on the kitchen shelf– surely minecraft can’t handle that…?

Thanks for replies. I’m asking in relation to a graduate seminar on 3D tech. Goal is to see how such tools will affect our research and teaching lives. So I may spend more time with Minecraft but introduce opensim and see if anyone runs with that for a final project.

@timfinnegan: ah, no, that’s probably more detail than minecraft can handle!

@sfsheath: you can import models into Unity3d and create interactive experiences there, which might be useful.

Yes. Unity on syllabus. My goal is to expose students to a range of tools along an axis of acquiring and displaying 3d content->creating their own content->integrating all of it into virtual experiences. That’s the first part of the course. Then let them run with the combo of tools that overlaps with their scholarly lives. A catalog of 3D objects? Cool! A recreation of an interior or exterior space. Also cool! 3D geospatial dataviz? Great! The confidence to have fun and turn hard work into something like “a result” is what I want my students to achieve. (Whoops, outside bounds of this channel but, hey, it’s #DH!)

i dream of a free historical-vr wiki where volunteers add detail to a vast 4-d model that includes every real place at every historical time

Data viz using Tableau (and JSTOR Labs’ Understanding Shakespeare API) of 20th Century Shakespeare scholarship: http://labs.jstor.org/showcase/#!twentieth-century.

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if you do data collection from twitter and ever wondered about how complete the streaming filter api call was relative to a search api call later https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y9ZCgNi9_QM1s_Iemtl2FTWaQSUqSjCVISL30wfUfxo/pubchart?oid=1694786989&format=interactive

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I was hoping the image would show up - not that it was that ground breaking :simple_smile:

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I :heart: the idea of sharing little visualization snippets in here btw

@edsu Cool! Why are they different?

The streaming API applies rate limits when there are high volume events.

Aha! Thanks!

Sorting algorithms: sonified (cc @shawngraham) http://www.caseyrule.com/projects/sounds-of-sorting/

@edsu: this is solid, you got plans to publish this? If you are going to the iConference I’d love for you to present this in our Sociotechnical Systems workshop

@mdlincoln: very cool. You can paste in your own data in the url, futz w/ various settings.

@mcburton thanks, I’m glad you liked it ; I do want to make it up to the IConference this year, it’s in Philly right?

@mcburton: I could get something together to present at the workshop I think

it’s pretty informal i guess?

@edsu: very informal, I have to run this by my co-organizers and we’ll have to see where it fits in the workshop plan. I’ll reach out later when I know more

i did correspond a bit on twitter with @walkeroh about how it could connect with other research that has already been done

@mcburton: let me know if it fits, no worries if not — i will be there anyway i suspect :smile:

a meditation on true-vs-false movie locations: http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2015/10/how-seeing-area-or-landscape-you-know-well-film-affects-your-viewing-experience

awesome nyc 4-d mapping project: http://spacetime.nypl.org/

Is it me, or is it the site? I can’t seem to load data to http://musicalgorithms.org/, and earlier versions of the site (link on that page) run into all sorts of java issues for me on various machines, browsers.

youtube’s ‘annotations’ now allow hyperlinking, so i’m thinking of making 19 simple youtubes with an audiobook edition of ulysses’ wandering rocks episode, and using a map to allow jumping between any two points happening at the same time… but how many links would work best?

if there was a full movie version, the 19 submovies could be run in parallel in a 5x4 grid, and it might be useful to mock this up just to show relative start and end times, plus ‘intrusions’

i’m trying to think of movies that did this– not sure where it’s classed on tvtropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SimultaneousArcs

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Comment: 19 subsections of ulysses episode 10, sorted semi-geographically

now to condense the 60min of the episode to a 60sec gif-animation showing when each starts and stops

@timfinnegan: this is very cool.

i’ve mocked up two short subsections in youtube with one hyperlink each: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8DoE_DKU7Q

the visual is an emojimap of all 19 subsections, with red and blue squares and circles highlighting the points of intersection

(frankly, it’s still confusing to me even though i already know what it’s trying to convey)

the closed captioning is a bad joke (actual text: http://ulyssespages.blogspot.com/2014/10/p215.html

o.m.g. they let me upload the text itself to fix the cc!

that’s some impressive d.h.

Anyone know which http://archive.org resource URL to feed http://voyant-tools.org so it’ll parse?

https://archive.org/details/stlouiscatholich03stlo vs https://archive.org/stream/stlouiscatholich03stlo/stlouiscatholich03stlo_djvu.txt although neither will parse.

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Comment: For instance, I get this error when trying

Do you get the same error if you load the txt from your own machine?

@shawngraham: no, I was testing via URL to see if I could feed Voyant Tools a list of http://archive.org URLs

meaning, *no a local file works fine.

oh, sorry.

@todrobbins: yeah, I thought it was just that the url you provided returned an HTML document rather than plaintext

but neither https://archive.org/download/stlouiscatholich03stlo/stlouiscatholich03stlo_djvu.txt

nor https://ia802604.us.archive.org/14/items/stlouiscatholich03stlo/stlouiscatholich03stlo_djvu.txt

(which the former proxies to) work

huh…

I just uploaded some .txts from http://archive.org to my s3 bucket and it’ll load those fine

(see #philosophy for my latest on visualising ulysses)