NAEA Need to Know Webcast: Data Visualization: Creating Dialogue

NAEA Need to Know Webcast: Data Visualization: Creating Dialogue
November 13, 2018
Cost: FREE

Join members of the Data Visualization Working Group in this three-part webcast exploring how data visualization facilitates teaching, learning, research, and, most importantly, dialogue.

Part 1: Data Visualization: Engaging, Enacting, and Envisioning
Karen Keifer-Boyd and her Visual Culture & Educational Technologies preservice course students: Carolyn Arosell, Brooke Burkhart, Caroline Coady, Jessica Farra, Maggie Higgins, Katy Lehman, Kat Lord, Michael Padilla-Nazario, Lacie Solt, and Brooke Stouffer

Explore data visualizations—their theories, practices, and principles—through their creation at
various stages of research. As part of the exhibition Overlap: Life Tapestries, students in Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd’s undergraduate preservice art education course, Visual Culture & Educational Technologies,
developed activities to facilitate encounters with the works displayed in the exhibition. Their project, called Overlap: Full Circle, utilizes a 360º camera to film multimodal dialogue about the art
in the exhibition from individuals who have come to experience it. The edited film will include data visualizations that extend the concepts of the art encounters and augment the fully immersive
experience that weaves life tapestries from the stories, drawings, performances, dances, and other interactions of those who have joined the circle of life in the gallery.

Part 2: Teaching Infographics: From Qualities to Quantities
Richard Siegesmund, Danielle Shappard, and Joe Zimka

Learn strategies for producing infographics—designs that shape quantitative data into visual and metaphoric representations. Drawing on the data visualization work of Edward Tufte and David McCandless, we’ll discuss student examples from specific assignments and how to think about the relationship of qualities and quantities and the ways in which to present it.

Part 3: Cultural Exchange Through Infographics
Yichien Cooper and Li-Yan Wang

Data visualization provides opportunities to overcome difficult dialogues and deepen our understanding, regardless of physical boundaries. In spring 2018, students from National Changhua University of Education (NCUE), Taiwan, and Washington State University Tri-Cities embarked on a journey. The students shared their findings through infographics representing
social and cultural issues and distributed them on different platforms, such as social media and
video conference. 

The NAEA Research Commission established the Data Visualization Working Group (DVWG) in 2012. Since then, DVWG members have addressed topics including demographic data available from national surveys, student-teacher ratios, arts-based approaches to data visualization, and distribution of minority art teachers in the U.S. through participatory research with field members, art education policy and advocacy, and national surveys with demographic data updated annually.

Please note that participation in this webcast does not include NAEA professional development credit.