Data Storytelling – Communication & Visualisation Skills for Researchers

by Emilie Walsh

For the second year in a row, Research Platform services is running Data Storytelling event for researchers across disciples. This will be an interactive team-based event, where you will learn with other researchers a range of skills to turn your research and your data into good storytelling material! How often do you need to turn a bunch of data into something coherent that you can communicate about? Or you need good visual communication material to promote and explain your work?Participants will be mentored in groups and supported in answering self-guided research questions with new digital methods, from data collection to visualisation.This will take place in the new digital studio in Arts West, a great collaborative space for researchers keen to up-skill in the digital tools!

Vincent and I will be running the Digital Archives of 3D objects stream. This is for anyone interested in working with objects based data sets : from art historians to zoologists, from dentistry to conservation researchers !


For as long as researchers have been working with artefacts, bones, or any kind of  three-dimensional objects, they have found the need to document their data: from anatomy drawings, to photographs, there is always a need to keep a visual trace of your research material. Some objects are just too fragile to be handled too often, or can’t be moved across institutions to be available for other researchers to work with them. 

Digitising your object based data set can now be a good solution to archive your research, communicate about it, and share it with others.

For our 2-day workshop we have partnered with the Grainger Museum to work on some of their collection. They have shares with us some of their most fascinating artefact, for us to 3D scan them, tinker your 3D model, and archive them online!I went to the Grainger’s storage to help select and pick up these treasures:


In our stream you will not only get the opportunity to use the university 3D scanners, but also learn how to use a range of digital tools to modify it, rescale it, play around with the lighting, and then export it to be displayed online, or even get a facsimile 3D printed!

How cool would it be to have a 3D model printed to communicate about your work, bring to a lecture or a presentation? There is a lot of interest recently around Objet-Based learning, and how we remember better when we get to experience, touch, feel and get a real sense of scale, texture and so on. 

Our Research Platform team have worked in the past to scan and print a replica of a roman coin, for archaeology students to get a better idea of it than with a photo!

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Annelies Van de Ven has also been scanning and printing her cyrus cylinder for communication purposes!

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Learn to do the same at our workshop!

Hurry up and register today!

https://datstory.eventbrite.com.au/

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