We are the principal designers of the Writing Studies Tree (WST), a project we hope you’ve heard about since our launch at the 2012 CCCC in St. Louis. Briefly, the WST … Read more... “Crowdsourcing Disciplinary Data: the process of building the Writing Studies Tree”
In Liza Pott’s Digital Rhetoric class at Michigan State University, we were assigned a “Tracing Digital Events” project, with the objective of learning “how to trace events in digital spaces, broadening [our]understanding of these technologies, participants, organizations, and genres” (Potts, … Read more... “Hey, We’re Trending! But, What are We Saying?: Analyzing Digital Conversations from 2013 #cwcon”
As a designer, I have previously carried out a range of projects that have involved some sort of data visualization. However, most often the clients I have been working with have given me relatively small datasets or information that was … Read more... “Visualization as sensemaking: experiences from approaching a large dataset”
This semester I am teaching a graduate seminar, Techniques in Information Visualization, and although my classes never enroll only cinema students, this one includes graduate students from five disciplines, at both the MA and PhD levels: English, Education, Journalism, … Read more... “Process and Processing: Methods for Discovery and Representation in Data”