How do we in the Digital Humanities design visualizations of patterns of information and networks? What counts as data in the humanities? And what does the visualization of this data reveal that differs from traditional/analog methods of humanistic enquiry? How do we “see” texts?
This course builds on the tools and methods learned in HUMN 100 to deepen students’ understanding of how visualization works in the humanities and to learn how design affects interpretation. The course surveys and develops students’ familiarity with a breadth of visualization tools and culminates in students developing their own data visualizations with their own datasets.
In this class students will learn to use:
Students will have the option of learning
Required Texts/sites:
- Isabel Meirelles, Design for Information (2013)
- Visualcomplexity.com
- recommended: Manuel Lima: Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information, Princeton Architectural Press, 2011
- recommended: Edward Tufte: Visual Explanations: Images, Quantities, Evidence, and Narrative (1997)
- recommended: Interactive Data Visualization for the Web (free online version)
Accommodations statement
Any student who needs an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact
Heather Fowler, Director of the Office of Accessibility Resources at hf007@bucknell.edu, 570-577-
1188 or in room 212 Carnegie Building who will coordinate reasonable accommodations for students
with documented disabilities.
The college will make reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities. Students should
notify their instructor and Heather Fowler, Director of the Office of Accessibility Resources at
hf007@bucknell.edu, 570-577-1188 or in room 212 Carnegie Building.
If you have a disability that may have some impact on your work in this class and for which you may
require accommodations, please see me and Heather Fowler, Director of the Office of Accessibility
Resources at hf007@bucknell.edu, 570-577-1188 or in room 212 Carnegie Building so that such
accommodations may be arranged.