When we talk publicly about Dunham's Data, folks tend to love our visualizations and ask how we made them. We've previously written blog posts about steps of the process including manual data curation and the iteration around particular vizzes. Now, we're thrilled to be able to share Antonio's code for three of our key interactive visualizations, together with tutorials and sample data to explore:
Interactive Flow of Katherine Dunham’s Dancers, Drummers, and Singers: “Check-Ins” 1947-60
The sankey visualization makes it possible to interactively examine the connections among the 189 dancers, drummers, and singers in Dunham’s employ between 1947 and 1960. Doing so, users can see who shared space and time together and therefore have a sense of the transmission of embodied knowledge across hundreds of performers. To interact with this visualization and see additional resources, please visit its portfolio landing page. The code and tutorial is located on this GitHub repository.
Interactive Network of Dunham Company Repertory: Shows, Containers, Pieces, and Dances-in-Dances
Over her career, Katherine Dunham actively repurposed and recombined elements of her choreography. Organized into a nested hierarchy of shows, containers, pieces, and dances-in-dances, this visualization makes it possible to interactively examine the many interconnections among Dunham’s repertory. To interact with this visualization and see additional resources, please visit its portfolio landing page. The code and tutorial is located on this GitHub repository.
Katherine Dunham’s Global Travel, 1947-60 (Interactive Space-Time Mapping)
Spatializing the data on where Dunham was every single day as she traveled the world, while maintaining chronology, allows us to see the architecture of her global travels. Plus it's beautiful. To interact with this visualization and see additional resources, please visit its portfolio landing page. The code and tutorial is located on this GitHub repository.