Johanna Drucker writes about graphical approaches to the digital humanities, and the challenges in doing so. The digital humanities often use data visualization methods and user interfaces that fundamentally contradict conventions of the humanities. The challenges surrounding graphical methods found in the humanities with digital work stem from the fact that they first originated in the humanities. Remembering the relative youth of the digital realm, all of these methods are being applied second hand to digital work which raises some complications. When attempting to apply graphical methods to any digital work, it is necessary to analyze the graphical method first from a humanistic approach in order to adapt it to digital matters. While using graphical methods such as spreadsheets and other grid forms, bar charts, bubble charts, and network diagrams it is so important to understand how these tools we may use in our data analysis have undergone fundamental developments in the humanities field. We need to remember to assess our use of data visualization tools based on the assumptions built into the first developments of these visualization methods, as they didn’t take place digitally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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