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Humanizing Data An Interpretation of Johanna Drucker’s UCLA lecture “From Data to Capta ”

Humanizing Data An Interpretation of Johanna Drucker’s UCLA lecture “From Data to Capta ” Oct. 16, 2009. Humanistic Interpretation is Rooted in Subjectivity. 1. It Uses Humans as the Point of Reference for Understanding the World . 2.

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Humanizing Data An Interpretation of Johanna Drucker’s UCLA lecture “From Data to Capta ”

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  1. Humanizing Data An Interpretation of Johanna Drucker’s UCLA lecture “From Data to Capta” Oct. 16, 2009

  2. Humanistic Interpretation is Rooted in Subjectivity 1

  3. It Uses Humans as the Point of Reference for Understanding the World 2

  4. Recently Humanist Have Been Completely Investing in the Use of Desktop Publishing Tools for the REPRESENTATION of DATA Presets Bad Design 3

  5. “REPRESENTING” Suggests that Data is a Pre-Existing Circumstance Rather Than a Circumstance that Exists According to an Individual Agenda 4

  6. There is a Need for a Shift from OBJECTS and SPACES to CONDITIONS and SITUATIONS 5

  7. We Need Different Tools for the Humanities Within the Digital Realm How can we design for the masses when everyone has different conditions and experiences? 6

  8. It is Thrilling to Re-imagine How Humanistic Endeavors Will Be Addressed In an Environment Where Design is So Broadly Understood 7

  9. What Is the Human/Machine Balance? 8

  10. How Do You Show That This Square Was a Person, With a Family and a Job? 9

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  12. How Do You Show Distance and Time as Experiential? Time of the Telling “I lived 1000 years” Time of the Told 11

  13. Finally, is it More Productive to Read Data as Simply as Possible and Create our Own Interpretation or Through An Individual’s Interpretation of It? 12

  14. Thank You! 13

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