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This short article focuses on how visualizing data can be advantageous for the public and what kind of softwares can be used to create such projects. For instance, software "Tabeleau Public" is a desktop application that can post graphs, maps, and table sinto the web. "Flare" is a software relying on Flash and can create interactive data shared with other users. This article basically reveals the many ways to visualize data other than through the use of Microsoft Excel.

Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information". A subtopic of the broader concet with which defining the structure and scope of it will align perspectives for other topics as an example.

Hyperstudio is a blog written by Digital Humanist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The latest post on the home page seems to be an invite/ad for the Visual Interpretations Conference that was held over two years ago. The purpose of the conference to provide a venue for experts in art and design to collaborate with digital humanist with the goal of the two become dependent on the other. This visualizations should allow for a different view and possibly promote questions and thoughts that were not previously discussed.

The article explains the potential application of the SMI RED-m, an eye tracking device, in digital classrooms by explaining its use by the Humanities Lab of Lund University in Sweden. According to the article Lund University, in cooperation with other international researchers, installed 25 SMI RED-m devices to build a prototype digital classroom. By utilizing this eye tracking software, researcher sin the visual perception lab hope to analyze how children learn things in a classroom situation, particularly with regards to introducing new technology to the class room. The intent of the researchers is to use data collected from the project to better tailor educational materials to the abilities and interests of children.

Digital humanities has gained popularity this year especially despite recent cuts to the program at certain universities. This distilling of information relies heavily on technology. At a recent NEH symposium, professors discussed projects they were having their students do. These involved heavy research on a subject and performances demonstrating the accumulated knowledge. Students learn through "living out" the roles others played in history. Some try to create visual representations of data. These projects can lead to cross referencing data and an overall deepening of research and information study. The humanities strives to make information widely available and open the scholarly world to a wide range of people.

The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities announces 5 institutes that will receive government grants to further their research. Included are the University of Texas at Austin's HiPSTAS, the University of Maryland, College Park's Digital Humanities Data Curation, George Mason University's Another Week | Another Tool - A Digital Humanities Barnraising, Folger Shakespeare Library's Folger Shakespeare Library Summer Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities: "Early Modern Digital Agendas," and Arkansas State University's Humanities Heritage 3D Visualization: Theory and Practice.