Open Visualisation/Workshop/2
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Second Open Visualisation Workshop
See also the main Open Visualisation Workshops page and the general Open Visualisation page.
Details
- When: Saturday 21st June 2008, 11am - 5pm
- Where: Trampoline Systems, 8-15 Dereham Place, London, EC2A 3HJ
- Map: http://tinyurl.com/58br3u
Participants
- Jonathan Gray, OKF
- Alberto Campagnolo, KCL
- Ioannis Doukas KCL
- Martin Dittus, Last.fm
- Emmanuel Delaborde
- Fred Labbe
- Ilya Dmitrichenko
- Julie Tolmie, KCL
- Ed Murfitt, RCA
Programme
Documentation
Feel free to add any notes or links to the notes on the workshop below!
Notes
- Alberto talked about his research on representing book structures
- Discussion and presentation on Vladimir Propp's work on the analysis of Russian folk tales. Representing narratives. Representing texts/corpora.
- Presentation of the Proppian Fairy Tale Generator v1.0. Symbols stand for functions. Interest in visually representing this kind of plot analysis.
- Discussion of Joseph Campbell and his work on comparative mythology (particularly "Masks of God")
- How can we visually represent the structure of narratives?
- Showing of Jonathan Harris' - We Feel Fine
- Discussion of the taxonomy of complex subject matter for visualisation
- Martin Dittus:
- notion that structures share common properties
- taxonomy/folksonomy
- objective (session) & subjective (genre, listening experience) characteristics
- Pandora - taxonomy, social/cultural elements
- Demonstration of Islands of music for last.fm
- 2d mapping?
- Visualising many to many relationships
- Network visualisation
- Things that describe music listening habits
- Representing time: timelines and animation
- Viznet - taxonomy of visualisation technologies
- Discussion: What is visualisation? Visualisation process?
- Julie Tolmie showed synchronised audiovisual clips from http://www.chdh.free.fr/net/
- Plans for next workshop:
- Decide it would be good for next time for people to choose a package, have several hands-on sessions introducing different packages
- More demos
- Building up a resource of different use cases, wish lists for visualisation technologies.
Links
Please record any post-event documentation here (blog posts, photos, etc.) - so people can find links to any writeups, comments and further thoughts all in one place!
Publicity
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www
- OKF blog 2008-06-13
- Sourceforge Prefuse forum, 2008-06-14
- Processing forum, 2008-06-14
- Upcoming 2008-06-14
- arts-humanities.net 2008-06-14
- open-visualisation
- okfn-discuss
- ok-london
- openlab
- ggobi
- vdg
- graphviz-interest
- view-theinfo
- jisc-repositories
- fc-uk
- cc-uk
- mysociety
- public-lod
- node.london
- lonix