The Art of Counting
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The Art of Counting is dedicated to capturing art (regardless of style, medium, or era) via a scientific process that tracks a vast range of variables. This allows for the discovery of patterns, trends, and messages contained in visual media through statistical analysis.
The method for translating a body of images into their most basic elements is the same:
• An expert in the subject matter, ancient Egypt in my case, closely examines the collection of images or objects and identifies the discrete symbols, themes, actions and components contained within them.
• Next, the knowledgeable researcher enters that data into the database using a series of yes/no answers for each variable across all scenes.
• Once the data is captured in this way, in a language shared by all sciences, it can be displayed as a spreadsheet that allows anyone, regardless of their expertise, to perform basic analyses, such as calculating the frequency of certain variables. Although basic, even these types of analyses can result in important findings.
• More advanced statistical analysis, which can be remarkably beneficial, requires either familiarity with statistical tools OR, as I have done, forming a partnership with a professional data analyst.
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