Hello all
List members working in and around data visualization, please consider joining me for a week of critically examining, and making, ethical data visualizations.
I’ll be teaching again this summer at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada. Course details are below, including a link to scholarships (about half of all attendees to DHSI receive a scholarship of some kind).
*** Ethical Data Visualization: Taming Treacherous Data ***
* Dates *
3-7 June 2019
* Location *
University of Victoria, Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada
* Instructors *
Katherine Hepworth and Christopher Church
* Description *
This course teaches participants how to use ethical visualization principles and practices to visualize treacherous, or culturally problematic, data. Such data includes racist historical documents, ideologically laden materials, culturally controversial texts, politically charged topics, gendered works, etc. Aimed at people who work with culturally sensitive datasets, and those who are interested in critical reflection on visualization practice, the course will combine hands-on activities and discussion. Participants will create data visualizations using R and instructor-provided stock code, and then interrogate their visualizations, identifying the extent and severity of the ethical pitfalls they inevitably contain. By the end of the week, participants will have produced several visualizations and prepared a position statement on ethical visualization appropriate for their own cultural and disciplinary contexts. No previous knowledge in coding, R, or visualizations is required. Participants are welcome to bring their own treacherous data, or they may use sample projects provided by the instructors. If you are unsure as to whether your data will work in this class, please feel welcome to contact the instructors in advance.
* Scholarship information *
Apply before 14 February… http://www.dhsi.org/scholarships.php
Please spread the word to colleagues and students with related interests. I hope you can join me in Victoria in June.
Best
Katherine Hepworth
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Katherine Hepworth, PhD
Assistant Professor of Visual Journalism, The Reynolds School of Journalism MS310
Co-Director, Nevada Center for Data and Design (NDAD)
University of Nevada, Reno | 1664 N. Virginia St, Reno NV, 89557 | United States
Phone: +1 (775) 784 4423
Websites: https://kathep.com | https://ndad.unr.edu/
Latest article: Improving Science Students’ Data Visualizations: A STEAM-Based Approach
http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dialectic.14932326.0002.104
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