Wired Campus: 3 Visualization Projects Point to the Future of Scholarship in the Humanities – Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: 3 Visualization Projects Point to the Future of Scholarship in the Humanities – Chronicle.com

“Turning historical and social-science data into pictures could help scholars identify new patterns in old records, according to researchers who gathered at George Mason University this weekend for a conference on technology in the humanities.At a session devoted to visualization — as making pictures out of data is called — participants discussed their favorite examples. Here are three they discussed…”

The first visualization site is called WorldMapper, and if a great example of how data visualizations convey meaning that most people cant see when looking at raw data sets.

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