1. Visualization of Knowledge
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Visualization of Knowledge
Why and why now?
Professor Niels Ole Finnemann, IVA.
Workshop on Knowledge Visualization.
Friday 20 January 1-5 pm at Southern Campus Room 15A.0.13

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Visualization
Visualization = the transformation of Vision as (invisible) Imagination to Vision as perception.
Now including data = invisible stored sequences of bits.

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Visualization as illustration of knowledge (2D) (Albrecht Dürer, Rhinocerus, 1515)

4. Relations between Knowledge and Visualization
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Relations between Knowledge and Visualization
Visualization
As a source for extracting and interpretation of knowledge
As Artistic Enrichment of data (Augmentation)
For Compression of Datasets
For Coding of Scanned Signals and Texts
As a Source for Methodological Experiments (simulations, explorations, virtual worlds)
As Configurations of multiple source knowledge systems

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TwittEarth.com or Twitter Earth is a social media visualization effort. It provides a global image mapping twitter activity. Social media and of course Twitter have brought communication to lands where technology and capital make it unobtainable. Third world countries can now be heard internationally. This will bring about change which should have occurred long ago. Millions of people and cultures are living in the past.

6. Conceptual approaches, e.g.
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Conceptual approaches, e.g.
Enrichments and elaborations on Data Visualization:
Nathan Yau, Data Points, Visualization that means something. Indianapolis: Wiley 2013.
Visual forms of knowledge production
Johanne Drucker. Graphesis. Visual Forms of Knowledge Production. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Aestesia & Aesthetic Enrichment (Flat data and rich data)
Anna Munster. An Aestesia of Networks. Conjunctive Experience in Art and Technology. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press 2013.
New Scopic Regimes
Knorr Cetina, K. (2014). Scopic media and global coordination: The mediatization of face-to-face encounters. In K. Lundby (Ed.), Mediatization of Communication (pp. 39–62). Handbooks of Communication Science 21. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

7. Multiple source knowledge systems
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Multiple source knowledge systems
The international Currency Trading system provided by Bloomberg and others: A globally synchronised, 24/7 system of 6-8 coordinated screens available for each currency trader spread across the globe (NY, London, Singapore …)
The screens are divided into numerous fields for a variety of different types of information, each field constantly updated and containing news (journalism) market information, watchlists, human and algorithmic realtime deals included etc..
The dealers operate” as if the brain was attached to the market unthinkingly.” (Karina Knorr Cetina, 2014, p. 52)

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Multiple source knowledge systems, - made possible by networked digital media - which include real time data and – if relevant - ongoing updating, are central in a growing range of social and cultural activities. Some are used for monitoring climate, pollution, traffic, urban spaces etc. A number are developed to monitor the 17 UN developmental goals. Others – as google search and google translate and wikipedia – are available for everybody.
The screens are divided into any number of cells, each of which is ascribed is own source and timescale.

10. Questions to reflect upon
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Questions to reflect upon
Do we need to have professional visualization expertise and related Labs and if so: Should it be associated to research and researchers on the level of research millieus? of disciplines? of departments, of faculty?
What competences are required for which array of tools. What is the ideal relation to the research subjects and methods?
What are at present the most important tools
Is there a wish or even a need to establish labs for the collaboration between researchers, IT-tool expertise (tools for analysis and visualization often goes together).

11. What about the future perpectives and next steps?
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What about the future perpectives and next steps?
Would it make sense to establish a forum or network at Faculty level for the exhange of practical experiences and/or epistemological reflections.