AMERICAN LANGUAGE HUB_Level2_Student'sBook_Answerkey.pdf
MPhil Lecture of Data Vis for Presentation
1. An Introduction to Structured
Data Presentation
New Perspectives on Old Data
http://www.slideshare.net/shawnday/m-phil-lecture12
2. Objective
To appreciate the range of structured data
presentation tools available to digital humanities
scholars and to be able to judge between them.
3. Agenda
How did you fare with the assignment?
Experiences
Lessons
Thoughts
Data Presentation versus Data Analysis?
Products to be have an awareness of
Hands On Install and Config
Exhibit
Omeka
Prezi
4. Structured Data Presentation Tools
(a tiny subset)
Webservices Prefuse
TimeFlow D3
Google Fusion Tables Processing
Many Eyes
Dipity Hosted
Omeka (Omeka)
Frameworks SEASR
Gephi
Exhibit (Exercise)
GraphViz
10. Setup and Preparation
Opera Browser contains a server if you need;
Available from opera.com;
Need to install opera unite - unite.opera.com;
Need to copy datafiles:
http://myeye.ie/ftp1/exhibit/nobelists.js?action=raw
http://myeye.ie/ftp1/exhibit/index1.html
You can find instructions at: http://myeye.ie/ftp1/exhibit/
recipe.txt
11. Background on Exhibit
Exhibit was developed at MIT to provide a
lightweight framework for the presentation,
searching and faceted browsing of digital collections.
Exhibit lets you easily create web pages with
advanced text search and filtering functionalities,
with interactive maps, timelines, and other
visualizations
12. So What?...
Little programming (JavaScript Template);
No database (JSON text);
a series of useful ‘instantly interactive’
visualisations.
27. Wrapup: Exhibit
Pros Cons
Simple Limited Scalability
Lightweight Some cross-browser
No server required issues
A host of Restrictions on Look
visualisations and Feel
Embeddable in other Extensive
systems - customisation means
ExhibitPress getting into code
Here comes Exhibit 3
32. Prezi
http://prezi.com
Scripted - Narrative driven Visual Presentation
Tool
Effective in skilled hands
Helps audience relate to overall message
Different way of imagining a presentation
Challenging
Not conventionally stand alone