Today, we have been working on our own in order to work practically and refine our pretotypes, make surveys and / or field studies. The time could also be used to refine and extend our disposition up to 5 pages.

What I did was mainly using that time for my thesis, since Björn as my theoretical mentor and me intended to meet again on Thursday in order to discuss final matters before handing in the extended thesis on Friday afternoon. I started with setting up a table of content, which mainly defines Part A, the introductory part. It is backed up already fairly good due to my research findings I had so far.The current draft of the structure looks like this (the italic parts are annotations of mine): 

1 Abstract
2 Introduction

 2.1 Data visualization
History + development
Examples
Different forms and their main use
Problems, issues with perception

 2.2 Linguistics
Historical overview
Terms + techniques: Corpus Linguistics, ngram
Terms + techniques: OCR (optical character recognition)
Problems: big data through OCR
EDA (Exploratory Data Analytics) necessity to visualize (bubenhofer: exploratory)
Linguistic concerns and problems link to problems: sequentiality, only use of common forms, but not fully perceivable, exp. current dataset birth reports.

   2.3 Realm and space
Theories of space Foucault, basic understanding of what room can be in that case
Effects on perception referring to work of Fernando + Claudio?
Pedagogical examples / related work museum with interactive installations: 2av, art+com, etc. referring to Nadine C.
Art Education references?
The digital as a new sphere + related work

 2.4 Relevance / multidimensional data visualization / Theoretical conclusion
based on statements of Tufte and other data viz dudes: multidimensional way of visualization helps to create a better understanding. exploratory in a way. why this viz?
what are the advantages?
examples / related work
backed up by artists who create an immersive new perspective through their experimental work. references björn?

 2.5 Research question

3 Approach
 3.1 General
 3.2 Research + analysis
Analysis of current forms of visualizations
examples: geo collocations, concrete + current examples from different fields. Tufte?
Conclusion of findings of this analysis

 3.3 Digital visualization
      3.3.1 Prototype of digital visualization applying findings from research
      3.3.2 Testing and surveying
      3.3.3 Final digital visualization

 3.4 Spatial installation
      3.4.1 Concept based on findings of digital visualization
      3.4.2 Prototype of spatial installation applying findings from digital viz
      3.4.3 Testing and surveying
      3.4.4 Final spatial installation

4 Conclusion

what i achieved, what are my findings. strengths + weaknesses of my work. where to situate final result. further proceedings. establish a way of an experimental way of perceiving that data, which helps to see another perspective instead of simply looking at 2d data sets. what that might be is not clear yet, since this work will be one of an exploratory nature. but what can be said is that we might be able to conclude new findings from that. (therefore in particular necessary that already visualized data set is used! in terms of comparison), contribute a new possibility to the field.

5 References
6 Literature glossary / Bibliography
7 Image glossary

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I intend to start from scratch and give a historical overview of data visualization and linguistics, as well as defining crucial terms of these two field I will be dealing with. This should enable the reader to follow my research process quite accordingly and to get into the matter more easily. An experienced reader could just skip this section and go on to section 2.4. In the afternoon, I continued working through the actual research book «The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward R. Tufte».