Data Visualization

Schema

• A very Brief History of Visualizations
  
• Visualization Elements
  
• What Do We Want to Communicate?

Slides

Resources

Visualization Examples

• Cäsar Flaischlen’s Graphische Litteratur-Tafel

• Royal Constellations — VisualCinnamon (Nadieh Bremer)

• Museo del Prado — Portrait Visualization (Elizabeth of Bourbon & Mariana of Austria)

• Digital Curator — Computational Art History Tools

• VisualCinnamon — New York Times Digital Trackers

• Tudor Networks of Power — Interactive Network Project

• Giorgia Lupi — “Data Items: A Fashion Landscape” (MoMA)

• Ebstorf Map Interactive Environment

Selected Bibliography

• Cairo, Alberto. How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter About Visual Information. W. W. Norton, 2020.

• Drucker, Johanna. Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production. Harvard University Press, 2014.

• Meirelles, Isabel. Design for Information. Rockport Publishers, 2013.

• Sedig, Kamran, and Paul Parsons. Design of Visualizations for Human–Information Interaction: A Pattern-Based Framework. Springer Nature, 2016.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02602-7

• Tuscher, Michaela, et al.  “Nodes, Edges, and Artistic Wedges: A Survey on Network Visualization in Art History.” Computer Graphics Forum (2025): e70154.
  https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.70154

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