Visual Literacy & Effective Display of Quantitative Data Spring 2010

Chris Jordan's Cans Seurat painting

Faculty Learning Community on Visual Literacy, school year 2010-2011.

Contact: Dominique Thiebaut, Assoc. Prof. in Computer Science, dthiebau@email.smith.edu.

Visual Literacy and Effective Display of Quantitative Data seminar was a 90-minute event featuring three presentations and a Questions and Answers panel on topics that explored quantitative representation and meaning. Smith College, April, 2010.

Thanks to Chris Jordan for Cans Seurat, a digital rendering that "depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds."

The seminar was sponsored by Smith College's Quantitative Learning Center and Educational Technology Services.