Viewing art through information visualization: A case study of Bob Ross’s The Joy of Painting

Slides used for presentation at the Virtual Symposium on Information and Technology in the Arts and Humanities, held April 22 and 23, 2015. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the ASIS&T (Association for Information Science and Technology) Special Interest Group for Arts and Humanities (SIG AH) and the Special Interest Group for Visualization, Images, and Sound (SIG VIS).

Dr. Michelle Chen is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Information at San José State University. Prior to joining the iSchool, she taught in several different universities, including the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Connecticut, and the University of San Francisco. Her primary areas of research and teaching interests include large-scale data visualization, data mining, social media, and online user behavior. In particular, she is interested in studying the value of virtual platforms as informational and social media and the role of today's networked environment on shaping user behavior. Dr. Chen is also a faculty member of The Silicon Valley Big Data and Cybersecurity Center.