Visualizing Text

New Paltz Design Week features lectures, workshops, and events celebrating design across disciplines on campus and in the region, organized by the new Department of Design, including the Graphic Design Program and the Digital Design and Fabrication Program, and the School of Fine & Performing Arts with support from the Hudson Valley Additive Manufacturing Center, Campus Auxiliary Services, Inc., the Hudson Valley Venture Hub, T-Source, and our generous Friends of Design Week. Now in its 9th year, New Paltz Design Week is free and open to the public.

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Learn how to turn text into data visualizations, by comparing two argumentative essays, using free and easy-to-use tools.

Learn how to turn text into data visualizations, by comparing two argumentative essays, using free and easy-to-use tools. Each participant will create a sketchnote that shows the insights made through our text analysis.W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington were famed black educators and thought leaders from the early 20th Century. They presented contrasting visions for the education of blacks in the south. W.E.B. DuBois believed that a liberal arts education was the best path to creating a flourishing future. Booker T. Washington stressed vocational and craft-based work instead, as the most practical way to move forward. In this workshop, we&#x27;ll compare texts created by both authors, to see what simple, free, and easy-to-use tools can do to help us see big-picture insights into these world views. We&#x27;ll see what&#x27;s similar, what&#x27;s different, what&#x27;s mentioned most frequently, correlations, and storytelling arcs in the writing. We will also discuss pitfalls: what parts of verbal expression are difficult to analyze through these tools. At the end of the workshop, with guidance, each participant will make a simple sketchnote by hand that shares key insights from the workshop.Workshop led by Joshua Korenblat, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design

Image credit: a detail from W.E.B. du Bois's data visualization showing the economic plights of African-Americans, 1900.

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