Arianna Ciula, Miguel Vieira, Ginestra Ferraro, Tiffany Ong, Sanja Perovic, Rosa Mucignat, Niccolò Valmori, Brecht Deseure, Erica Joy Mannucci, ‘Small Data and Process in Data Visualization: The Radical Translations Case Study’ (2021)

In this paper, presented at the 6th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (24 October 2021), King's Digital Labs and the RT research team jointly discuss theoretical perspectives informing the adoption and critique of data visualization in the digital humanities.

This paper uses the collaborative project Radical Translations as case study to examine some of the theoretical perspectives informing the adoption and critique of data visualization in the digital humanities with applied examples in context. It showcases how data visualization is used within a King's Digital Lab project lifecycle to facilitate collaborative data exploration within the project interdisciplinary team - to support data curation and cleaning and/or to guide the design process - as well as data analysis by users external to the team. Theoretical issues around bridging the gap between approaches adopted for small and/or large-scale datasets are addressed from functional perspectives with reference to evolving data modelling and software development lifecycle approaches and workflows. While anchored to the specific context of the project under examination, some of the identified trade-offs have epistemological value beyond the specific case study iterations and its design solutions.

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