Something we're all in denial about, btw, is that rhetorical infrastructure is one of the central achievements of CS: • 10-page, open-access paper • clear abstract • figure explains the problem on page 1 (or at most 2) • supported by open code • written in ... LaTeX ... (ok, no one's perfect)

VIS4DH is back at @ieeevis.bsky.social, November 2025 in Vienna! Find the Call for Papers here, focusing on the Visualization of Conflict and Peace: vis4dh.dbvis.de/cfp/

Developing the cube of multimodal competencies in (digital) history - thanks for another round with the splendid builders crew: Christian Wachter, @dielindada.bsky.social, and @sschwandt.bsky.social at @zthf.bsky.social!

Thank you, @kulturpool.bsky.social, BMWKMS🇦🇹, FFG, and @ars.electronica.art (together with @saschel.bsky.social, Ross Parry, @schichmax.bsky.social & many others) for 2 days of co-ideation re future (re)use of digital cultural heritage! info.kulturpool.at/stakeholder-... #collections>>connections

Against the god trick in data visualization: "From Exploration to Critique - Catalyzing Critical Inquiry with Cultural Collection Visualizations". Thanks to @erigeneia-eos.bsky.social, K. Glinka, @nrchtct.bsky.social, and the fabulous guest eds at CG&A. doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG....

May 9th, Bielefeld: Psychoanalyzing historiography & its modality struggles: "Text wants to critique, image wants attention, visualization just wants to help with the data? - On intermodal tensions in DH."

A scrolling essay about scrolling, textual navigation, and interface design: "The scroll bar faded away, almost like a ghost of its former self, replaced by an emphasis on continuous motion instead of clear indicators." navigation-queues-navigation-cues.f451.studio?ref=thebrows...

A dose of Austrian cheerfulness at #DHd2025: Diagrams & dances of life and death. Slides at bit.ly/dhd-z (Distant Viewing II, HSBI E1)

my unfinished paper watching me scrolling the tl

“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton. drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...

AI will sort it out? DAC Summer School 2025 (Krems, 2-4 July) explores collecting, archiving, and curating in the digital age, with a focus on AI's role. The call for contributions is open until 7 April. Participation is free. #AI #DigitalArchives #CulturalHeritage #SummerSchool #DigitalHumanities

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Special Issue on Visualizing Big Culture & History Data - Big thank you to all authors and reviewers! www.frontiersin.org/journals/big...

Insane: all books of the world visualized in ISBN space phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/vi... (by github.com/phiresky, via HackerNews)

Feels quite "this is fine" to do conferences these days, but then again (cf. last slide) - new means to defend the perception of art & culture might be most needed when the flood swallows the zone. (1/5)

Taught the first day of "Data for the Rest of Us" and tried an activity I'm calling "We Data." Students construct datasets about themselves in small groups and look for stories in the spreadsheet. A good icebreaker and introduction to the themes of the course. More here:

New Project: Taking you from Belvedere Palace, built by Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), to his spectacular library (“Bibliotheca Eugeniana”) at the Austrian National Library / Hofburg Vienna. (1/6)

ok, more to plug. when doing vis, it's our civic duty to reduce complexity, right? if you enroll with the counterexample police, better put some effort into it. achievement unlocked: "complexity as design material", with a wonderful #vis4dh crowd: arxiv.org/abs/2409.07465

what if... doing theory as "footnote to plato" always was part of the problem? o.O manifesto for not poking out our own eyes, when going theory in the humanities #vis4dh @culturalanalytics.bsky.social culturalanalytics.org/article/1218...

narrating culture, visualization-based, multi-user & multi-protagonist, no less: from a transnational knowledge graph to visually analysing & narrating your curated topic: next week at vis4dh.org "a workflow approach to vis-based storytelling" on our one-stop-shop intavia intavia.eu #vis4dh

in terms of work at the new historical world order: oct 24, exhibition opening at visap.net/2023/ with absolute pet project: space-time cube gone data sculpture, "monster in a snowglobe" - work with viola rühse and michael smuc. #dataquaria #helloworld

all right. better luck next time. what could go wrong. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshitt...