220008 Communication with the blackbox: Visualization and explanation in the interaction with algorithms (S) (WiSe 2018/2019)

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Today’s main challenge in algorithmic data processing and in particular in the Digital Humanities is being able to present the result of digital processing in a humanly readable way. One answer is visualization. The results are not communicated and not explained, they are shown. The differences identified by algorithms are translated into spatial configurations that transform the complex topology of digital processing into two-dimensional images that can be interpreted (if the interpretation succeeds).
Visualization, which is not a typical humanities tool, is borrowed from sciences that use it for analytical purposes. But now the Digital Humanities use visualization to make algorithmic processing meaningful for human beings. We will observe and discuss this trend and its forms in different projects, highlighting the advantages and possible traps of its suggestive intuitive connections. We will focus on the role of interpretation in digital procedures.

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