Tommaso Elli

Tommaso Elli is researcher at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano. He started collaborating with DensityDesign as an intern in 2015 and got his PhD in Design in 2022 with a dissertation on the use of visualization in support to Literary Criticism. His interests include information visualization, critical studies on visualization, digital humanities, open source software, and creative coding. He supported the activities of the group in different research projects an in teaching activities of the Final Synthesis Design Studio and in the Creative Coding course.

Research

Publications

Clustering to synthesize and scattering to reveal. Interactions and animations in the visualization of complex hierarchical data in Atlante Calvino

Tommaso Elli, Angeles Briones, Beatrice Gobbo, Michele Mauri. 2024. 2CO3 COmmunicating COmplexity, 186–194. Milano: Franco Angeli.

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Data, Algorithms and Otherness. The Erasure of the Other

Tommaso Elli, Gabriele Colombo, Beatrice Gobbo. 2024. In Design Meets Alterity. Case Studies, Project Experiences, Communication Criticism (pp. 62–80). Milano: FrancoAngeli.

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Designing network visualizations for genetic literary criticism

Tommaso Elli, Andrea Benedetti, Valentina Pallacci, Elena Spadini, Michele Mauri. 2023. Convergências, 16(31), 25–38.

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Genetic networks: data model and visualisations

E. Spadini, A. Christen, Valentina Pallacci, Tommaso Elli, Andrea Benedetti, D. Maggetti, Michele Mauri, S. Péterman. 2023. Digital Humanities 2023: Book of Abstracts, 319–321. Graz: Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz.

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Making posters to understand statistics: towards a didactical approach in communication design

Michele Mauri, Simone Vantini, Beatrice Gobbo, Tommaso Elli, Elena Aversa, Andrea Benedetti, Angeles Briones, Gabriele Colombo. 2022. DRS2022: Bilbao, 1–18.

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Menzione d’onore Compasso d’Oro – Atlante Italo Calvino

Michele Mauri, Tommaso Elli, Angeles Briones, Beatrice Gobbo, Francesca Serra, Valeria Cavalloro, Virginia Giustetto, Margherita Parigini, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2022. ADI - Associazione per il Disegno Industriale. pp. 96–96.

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Staging and storing data sprint-based research results: a communication design approach

Beatrice Gobbo, Angeles Briones, Elena Aversa, Tommaso Elli, Andrea Benedetti, Michele Mauri, Gabriele Colombo. 2022. Dígitos, 1(8), 87–108.

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Visualizing the genetic process of literary works

Valentina Pallacci, Andrea Benedetti, Tommaso Elli, Michele Mauri. 2022. In F. Ciracì, G. Miglietta, & C. Gatto (Eds.), Culture digitali. Intersezioni: Filosofia, arti, media. (pp. 179–184)

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Metaphors as Knowledge Activators in Data Visualizations: The case of the Archipelago of Calvino’s literary works

Tommaso Elli, Angeles Briones, Beatrice Gobbo, Michele Mauri. 2021. Proceedings of Cumulus Conference Roma 2021. Cumulus, Romas.

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“Drawing with Code”: the Experience of Teaching Creative Coding as a Skill for Communication Designers

Andrea Benedetti, Tommaso Elli, Michele Mauri. 2020. 12th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 3478–3488

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Tied in Knots: A Case Study on Anthropographic Data Visualization About Sexual Harassment in the Academy

Tommaso Elli. 2020. 2020 IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), 29–44

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Beyond Visualization

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Tommaso Elli. 2019. In H. Hotson & T. Wallnig (Eds.), Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Standards, Systems, Scholarship (Vol. 1–1, pp. 299–314). Universitätsverlag Göttingen.

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Venezia, la ‘Festa Mobile’: per un atlante in fieri. Luoghi, figure e forme della favola antica nel primo Rinascimento

Bortoletti Francesca, Beatrice Gobbo, Tommaso Elli, Gerbino Giuseppe, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2018. La Rivista di Engramma, 160(novembre 2018), 1–10.

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RAWGraphs: A Visualisation Platform to Create Open Outputs

Michele Mauri, Tommaso Elli, Matteo Azzi, Giorgio Uboldi. 2017. In Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter (p. 28:1–28:5). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3125571.3125585

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Visualisation Strategies for Comparing Political Ideas with the ORATIO platform

Tommaso Elli, Giovanni Moretti, Rachele Sprugnoli, Michele Mauri, Giorgio Uboldi, Sara Tonelli, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2016. In M. Eder & J. Rybicki (Eds.), Digital Humanities 2016. Conference Abstracts. Krakow: Jagiellonian University & Pedagogical University.

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