Hey this is really cool! Thanks for putting it together.
There are obviously so many directions you could go with an active visualization and exploration experience for this data set.
My question for you then, is--what are you trying to enable your visual explorers to do better? How specific can you be in articulating what "problem" you want to solve for them?
E.g., Maybe you believe that art researchers or "visual explorers", whomever fits your target user here, need to be able to more swiftly filter the collection along different dimensions and then see the results grouped by country so as to see commonalities across countries that weren't apparent before. If so, that will inform how you design the interactive visualization.
With your current version, I would think more about the tag/filtering experience. Current behavior--when I click a tag, I'm forced to sit and watch it cycle through items with the same tag.
Forcing a user to play along at a certain speed is generally an issue, unless of course there is a narrative that is inextricably bound to such temporal constraints, and wouldn't make sense without them.
Thank you for the kind words. I am an art historian currently doing a PhD where I investigate the use of digital methods for art historical research. So my usual work is more academic in nature. In the meantime though, I work closely together with a developer and we like to create all sorts of visualizations, put together datasets, etc.
For The Met Globe we actually just wanted to create something nice for a large touch screen setup we have in our department. So the idea is that when people sit down for coffee and chat, they might get (un)consciously inspired by beautiful historical artefacts. There is a picture of setup on my twitter account: https://twitter.com/FloorKoeleman/status/908239636660736001
There are obviously so many directions you could go with an active visualization and exploration experience for this data set.
My question for you then, is--what are you trying to enable your visual explorers to do better? How specific can you be in articulating what "problem" you want to solve for them?
E.g., Maybe you believe that art researchers or "visual explorers", whomever fits your target user here, need to be able to more swiftly filter the collection along different dimensions and then see the results grouped by country so as to see commonalities across countries that weren't apparent before. If so, that will inform how you design the interactive visualization.
With your current version, I would think more about the tag/filtering experience. Current behavior--when I click a tag, I'm forced to sit and watch it cycle through items with the same tag.
Forcing a user to play along at a certain speed is generally an issue, unless of course there is a narrative that is inextricably bound to such temporal constraints, and wouldn't make sense without them.
Great work though! Thanks for sharing.