{"id":1595,"date":"2015-06-05T16:49:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T16:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/?p=88"},"modified":"2015-06-05T16:49:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T16:49:51","slug":"mooc-data-visualisation-hackthon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/2015\/06\/05\/mooc-data-visualisation-hackthon\/","title":{"rendered":"MOOC Data Visualisation Hackthon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/files\/2015\/06\/Tableau-mooc_hack-2015-05-28-06-46-09.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/files\/2015\/06\/Tableau-mooc_hack-2015-05-28-06-46-09-e1433522337699-300x212.png\" alt=\"Daily comment count.\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tableaux: Daily comment count.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Exploring and presenting our research data in a readily understandable visual form is an important aspect of communicating our work. Last week at our inaugural MOOC Data Visualisation Hackthon, members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/web-001.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/\">Web Observatory<\/a> team and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wais.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/\">Web and Internet Science<\/a> research group at the University of Southampton get together\u00a0to share and develop <a href=\"http:\/\/d3js.org\/\">d3<\/a>\u00a0skills, explore new datasets, and make meaningful visualisations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_90\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/files\/2015\/06\/dendro3-likes.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-90\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/files\/2015\/06\/dendro3-likes-300x158.png\" alt=\"Dendro visualistion of responses to comments.\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">d3: Dendro visualistion of responses to comments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Datasets containing comment data from the University of Southampton&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/portus\/\">Archaeology of Portus<\/a>\u00a0FutureLearn MOOC were made available on the day. Highlights of the event included <a href=\"http:\/\/hip.cat\/emax\/\">Max Van Kleek<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0interactive Dendro visualisations, <a href=\"https:\/\/soton.academia.edu\/PaulBooth\">Paul Booth<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tableau.com\/academic\/students\">Tableaux<\/a> timeline, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Gutteridge\">Chris Gutteridge &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/~cjg\/portus\/d3\/6.html\">visualisation<\/a> of domain-specific word occurrence. Many of the participants were new to d3 and\u00a0spent much of the afternoon following\u00a0Max&#8217;s useful guidelines and exploring the resulting\u00a0visualisations.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to showcasing these and other outputs a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/\">Web Science Institute<\/a> event at London&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalcatapultcentre.org.uk\/\">Digital Catapult<\/a>\u00a0showcase\u00a0next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring and presenting our research data in a readily understandable visual form is an important aspect of communicating our work. 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