ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to develop a conceptual framework to explore “ways of knowing” in the humanities as they relate to the representation of information. Academic managers are simply with coloured pencils and graph paper because sometimes our more complex tools can paradoxically limit us and get in the way. Collaborative data stories from Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2017 ranged from empirical studies to imaginary maps. Working in skills-based teams, participants brainstorm and prototype a data story over the five-day workshop—specifically, an interactive narrative experience that tells a story with/around/about data. A humanistic approach, according to Johanna Drucker, “is centered in the experiential, subjective conditions of interpretation”. At a time when it is all too easy to be blinded by the newest technological now and the latest technological next, a slower paced, deeply human approach to data visualization privileges the interpretative nature of knowledge production.
