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I will be following through with my brainstorm idea. I will be making a 3D environment for each planet system and the user will have the option (or maybe i’ll make the window pop up automatically) to open an information pane that will give the user info about the system, planet, relevance to story, etc… Each scene will have a mini map that the user can click on which will bring up a galaxy map. The planets are highlighted and users can click on corresponding buttons to jump directly to the system.

The tough part will be incorporating the zooming in/out aspect. It is easy enough to allow users to switch between scenes but the goal is to make an animation that makes it seem like you are flying through space during the transition.

Here are some of the systems I’ve already created:

For my final project I will do an analysis of Digital Humanities through the eyes of the people that participated in the Day of Digital Humanities. In the presentation I will use various tools to analyze individual definitions over the past years to this year’s definitions. I also plan to do a slide show of the pictures that were posted to people’s blogs. Given my limited computer abilities, I am not entirely sure what I will be able to accomplish based on my goals.

With the decision between using one short story or comparing two stories and the path, I’ve decided to do a little of both. I have decided to mainly concentrate around Study in Scarlet but use other short stories location to have a firm ground  and proof of consistency of Sherlock’s path as a detective. Alike our mapping assignments previously with Mrs. Dalloway, I would like to plot out the points onto Google Map, but not on Google Earth since  I believe that Google Map and its 2D view does a better job in protraying one’s path.

Aside from plotting the points and analyzing the places Sherlock visits, I would also like to incorporate using Georgia Tech’s mobile app Argon, and try to incorporate a 360 panorama of London and place location marks of Sherlock’s path of Study in Scarlet, so that users can have a more 3d view of what Sherlock’s path, which could be seen as a substitute for the Google Earth assignment.

For my final project I intend to map out John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces. I chose this book in part because it is one of my favorites and this project will give me an opportunity to revisit it and in part because it is full of references to specific locations that should render this mapping quite useful both as a tool to better understand the story and as a tool to better familiarize people with the city of New Orleans. In order to obtain the data for my map, I intend to use Voyant to find mentions of streets, roads, buildings, city names, etc, as well as YouTube video tours of New Orleans that were inspired by the book. After obtaining my data, I will input it into either Google Maps or Google Earth and create a virtual map/tour that will be imbedded with any relevant images and videos that I may come across. The resulting artifact should prove to be beneficial as a study tool for students reading the book for school, as well as fans of the book who visit New Orleans and want to take the opportunity to retrace the steps of protagonist Ignatius J Reilly.

Group: Nina, Johan, Szuting

We had mentioned we were impressed by the video projects that were shown in class, and we decided to make a documentary film to put our thoughts together in order to demonstrate the topic we are going to cover: how does the experience of reading online magazine differentiate from the traditional? and how the information has been interpreted differently?

First we will have a short intro about two different ways of reading (the hard copy and the digital version, we were thinking using series of pictures or maybe record the actual reading process), and from there, we will bring up some questions such as what are the differences of reading hard copies of magazine and online version ones, and how the information was interpreted differently through both experience. Then we will answer the questions through interviews and talked about what we think and how this topic is related to what we’ve learned in class about Digital Humanities.

We are very excited about the how our ideas will turn out!

After a bit of deliberation and at the suggestions of the professor, I have decided to create a sort of mini-Voyant, suitable for a mobile device. I would like to see the ability of plugging in a simple URL into the phone that scrapes the text of a site (preferably one that has a digitized story) and lets you do a simple word search that will give you the location of all the times a word or phrase appear in the text. I would also like to create a rudimentary word cloud with the ability to change the scope for the type of words.

I will outline a proof-of-concept first before going into the coding, as it could take longer than expected. I hope to have a fully operable program by the time this is due, but I will set up a barebones framework first to demonstrate how the program would function.

As indicated in my final project brainstorm, I will proceed with the difference in language use by women and men analysis. Using Voyant, I will textually analyze 20-25 poems of 10-12 female poets and 10-12 male poets (all from the 20th or 21st century), and then compare the statistical results. My hypothesis is that the occurrence of object and action words will be more prevalent in male poets work while female poets will have more “social process” words, or words reflecting emotions and concepts.

My initial list of poets is as follows:
Lucille Clifton
Anne Sexton
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Elizabeth Bishop
Audre Lorde
Marianne Moore
Mina Loy
Adrienne Rich
Sylvia Plath
Rita Dove
Gwendolyn Brooks
WCW
Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
Wallace Stephens
Robert Frost
e.e. Cummings
Langston Hughes
Stanley Kunitz
Allen Ginsberg
Amiri Baraka
Robert Hayden
Robert Lowell

Of the two ideas we proposed in our brainstorm, we have decided to go with a visualization of opinions and feelings about the current state of the world through a program that would parse through the articles of a news site. We decided to go with this idea instead of a twitter trend parser because 1.) it is easier to gather more information on a news site and 2.) we were able to come up with a feasible way of presenting how we would implement such a program.

In our final project, we will render a globe representing the world and its basic geography. Our program would parse through the articles of a news site (most likely, CNN) and display a sort of heatmap that corresponds to crime/success stories from places mentioned in the articles. Bright colors will represent positivity in the news of corresponding regions, dark colors will represent the contrary. Instead of actually implementing the system, we will be presenting a proof-of-concept with a few preselected news stories. We plan on presenting this idea through a 3D depiction of our news globe through Autodesk Maya.

For my final project. I will design a text visualization system specifically for students. The system will allow the user to choose short stories, novels, poems, and online texts to visualize in the system. The working title of the project is called StudentView. The user will type in the url into the browser and be brought to a screen that looks like Google. The user will type in the name of the text that they would like to visualize to see if it is already in the database. If not, the user has the option to upload their text that they want to visualize.From there, the user will be brought to this screen.

The user can choose to look at the text in its entirety, look at individual paragraphs/stanzas/chapters of the text, or compare different paragraphs/stanzas/chapters of the text. The three main windows in the text view will be a preview window, workspace window, and text window. In the preview window, the user will be able to see a preview of how different views of the text will look in a word tree, word trends, tag cloud, words in context, or an extra view of the text. The user can then drag and drop that view into the workspace window. In the workspace window, the user will be able to see a larger view of the specific window. The user can drag as many views into the workspace window as they would like. In the text view, the user can see the entirety of the text. On the right hand side there is a heat map view of the text. If you search for a word, the heat map will show where that word appears most frequently. You can change the setting of the heat map to show individual lines , sections, or chapters. In addition to searching for only one word, you can search for more than one word and the additional word would be added to all of the preview windows and text. For example, if you searched the word Sherlock in the search bar, the text would highlight in yellow all the instances where Sherlock appeared and in the preview windows, the visualization would revolve around the word Sherlock. If you wanted to search an addition word such as London, the views would update to include Sherlock and London. This way you can see the relationship between the two words.

The Chapter Comparison view allows the user to compare different sections of the novel, short story, or poem. In this view, the user can choose a view that they want to see across all of the different chapters from the top menu. For example, if the user wanted to see the word trend of the word Sherlock in each chapter, you can compare the line graph of all the chapters quickly.

My tool will include basic ideas from information visualization principles. This tool will have details on demand, small multiples, brushing between views, animation transitions. I will be using the tool Axure to create an interactive prototype of my tool. Axure allows me to include the drag and drop functionality that would be hard to replicate using PowerPoint on Flash. I am excited for this project and believe that it could truly be useful for students.