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I first caught word over at
\n
\nJunk Charts<\/a> of
\nthis<\/i> infographical rendering<\/a> (in the
\n
\nSunday Times<\/i><\/a>) of a week of concert-going. The spread includes profound
\nthoughts, counts of the people on stage, quality arcs of each show, more
\nprofound thoughts, entertaining phrases, profound guests on stage, and best
\nparts, all convoluted into charts, graphs, stacked bars, and bubbles. When
\nI first saw the quality arcs, I thought it would be cool to throw something like
\nthat together to suggest rising and falling intensities over the course of a
\ngraduate program of study. But heck, it took me four days to get around to
\nposting on these few pieces that churned through the aggregator on Sunday, so
\nit’ll be a few more days before I get around to drawing up quality arcs of my
\nown.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Sunday’s infographucopia finally led me back around to
\nemo+beer<\/a>, a blog I feel like I
\nshould’ve known about before now as it plays at the crossroads of music, affect,
\nexperience, and data visualization. Earl Boykins, the blog’s proprietor,
\nwent at the NYT article, too, coding it with a four-part text analysis, too, and
\nproduced
\n
\nthis entry<\/a>, which shows the NYT article not as text, but as a horizontal bar
\nchart. At the bottom, the colors are realigned so that they amplify the
\ndensities of each of the four categories for coding. Aligned like a row of
\nicicles: <\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

I am immediately attracted to the pedagogical possibilities,
\nreminded of the practices I already use sometimes with highlighting to emphasize
\nfeatures that, glanced across an entire document, suggest patterns. But in
\nthis case, everything folds into the chart. What can we say of this type of
\ntranslation? Its relationship to text sense (whether a NYT article, song
\nlyrics, a journal article, or other writing of one’s own)? Its resemblance to
\nstreaks of unevenly applied paint? What of shape grammars?
\nIn\/coherence? Im\/balance? Variety?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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