Z604/Z672 Comic Books and Their Readers

Digital and Empirical Methods for Studying Readership and Fandom
Spring 2024

12:40 - 15:15 Wednesday, Sycamore Hall (SY) 103

Associate Instructor: Alex Wingate, alewinga@iu.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays, 1:30pm-2:45pm, and by appointment (click Zoom link in Alex’s profile)

Week 10: Data visualization lab

This week we will gain hands-on experience with some data visualization tools and create visualizations from comics-related data sets.

articulate and explain fundamental concepts and principals of information visualization.
explore and discuss the effectiveness of an information visualization.
Use existing datasets and visualization tools to create information visualization.
create data visualizations in Excel.
create data visualizations in Tableau.

McCandless, D. (2010). The beauty of data visualization. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization
Braun, S. (2019). Critically engaging with data visualization through an information literacy framework. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 012(4). https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/12/4/000402/000402.html
Shilling, J. (2022). A design process for dataviz. Nightingale. https://nightingaledvs.com/a-design-process-for-dataviz/
Porter, D. (2022). (More) Books of Hours as Transformative Works. Dot Porter Digital (personal blog). http://www.dotporterdigital.org/more-books-of-hours-as-transformative-works/
Look at three types of graphs on From Data to Viz (For discussion leaders, does not need to be included on summary sheet)
Download/Install
Install Microsoft Excel (see https://iuware.iu.edu/).
Create a Tableau account, and install Tableau.
- You will have to verify your student status.

Discussion
Presentation of data manipulation, pivot tables, and visualization in Excel
- Excel walkthrough
Presentation of visualization in Tableau
- Tableau walkthrough
Completion of labs; labs due to Canvas Week 10 Lab assignment
- Excel lab
- Tableau lab