Author Archives: Lauren Klein

Five Years of Every NBA Shot Attempt, Visualized:

Is this fast-thinking viz or slow?

Four posts on coding and DH. Hoping that we’ll have time next week to extend our conversation of “codes” in Sherlock to the process– and meaning– of coding.

In “Things We Share,” Miriam Posner responds to the post about DH and gender that I linked to the other day.

On another note, Lev Manovich has posted about QTIP software, an image-processing application that can be hooked into his ImagePlot tool, a tool for visualizing large sets of digital images.

Below, using QTIP with ImagePlot to compare 580 van Gogh paintings (left) vs. 580 Gauguin paintings (right):

What do you see?

Lev Manovich put together this list of innovative visualizations of temporal processes (with a couple of tools thrown into the mix).

Here’s a blog post that considers three ways to visualize Infinite Jest, the very long (but amazing) David Foster Wallace novel. Below, a character flowchart: