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Museum Team – Data Experience

The Museum team met on Monday night to start brainstorming for the “lightbox gallery” in the Harvard Art Museum’s new Renzo Piano-designed wing connected to the Fogg building. We were joined by Jeff Steward, the museum’s director of emerging technology, who shared with us visualizations of page-view data for object-record pages at the museums’ web site. This fly-through shows the forests and deserts of page-views, offering an intuitive sense of the degrees of interest people take in objects in the museum. It’s an example of one kind of evocative data experience we want to experiment with in the lightbox gallery.