I am very excited to hold this workshop on Visual Analysis at the Visualization Lab for Digital Art History at UC Berkeley. Thank you, Justin Underhill, for the invitation.

The central method in digital art history and the analysis of digital visual culture today is “distant viewing”—the overview of a corpus. It allows the identification of structures and clusters and the drill-down on the individual object that might be of particular interest. This type of visual analysis is based on image plots and t-SNE maps.

The creation of these meta-images usually requires programming skills and experience in dimensionality reduction and in neural networks. This workshop makes it easy to analyse collection data on a mere visual level. Bring your own data, no programming skills required.