John Wihbey, Sarah J. Jackson, P. M. Cruz, Foucault Welles
{"title":"22. Visualizing diversity: Data deficiencies and semiotic strategies","authors":"John Wihbey, Sarah J. Jackson, P. M. Cruz, Foucault Welles","doi":"10.1515/9789048543137-026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048543137-026","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the complicated dynamics that are inherent to the practice of data visualization involving issues of race and identity. We focus on data from the US Census and the profound questions that are raised as visual forms purport to represent groups. After reviewing historical context and related limitations and controversies, we present a project that explores a novel approach to visualizing US immigration patterns, an approach that relies on visual metaphors and algorithmic construction of visualization patterns based on massive sampling of Census microdata. The chapter suggests that the use of innovative expressive techniques to convey insights through poetic, and thus less literal, and limiting, forms is a way of grappling with underlying deficiencies in administrative population data.","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123917912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"7. Accessibility of data visualizations : An overview of European statistics institutes","authors":"M. Snaprud, Andrea Velazquez","doi":"10.1515/9789048543137-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048543137-011","url":null,"abstract":"Access to public data is important for people to stay informed. Access to visualizations of national statistics can be essential in order to take part in political discussions and so to shape a democratic society. In this chapter we investigate accessibility for people with disabilities to data visualizations from a selection of European National Statistics Institutes (NSIs). We outline related practices and approaches to accessibility improvements and propose a way to evaluate and compare accessibility aspects of data visualizations. The findings indicate that in contrast to the recently harmonized European legal requirements, the degree to which the data visualizations meet the requirements, and the approaches to meet them, are very different among the NSIs across Europe.","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"210 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133418800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multimodal academic argument in data visualization","authors":"Arlene Archer, Travis M. Noakes","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.21","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter investigates the semiotic and rhetorical strategies for realizing argument in data visualizations produced by second-year journalism students. The semiotic strategies include use of colour, typography, graphics, and the rhetorical strategies include establishing credibility and the use of citation. The effect of the underlying basis for comparison of data on the argument is examined, as are the selection and processing of data. The chapter investigates the semiotic encoding of ideational material and the ways relationships are established within the discourse communities constructed in the data visualizations. This way of looking at academic argument has important implications for teaching these text-types in higher education in order to produce critical citizens; both in terms of production and critical analysis.","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132328390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Humanizing data through ‘data comics’:","authors":"Aria Alamalhodaei, A. P. Alberda, A. Feigenbaum","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132489635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data visualization and transparency in the news","authors":"H. Kennedy, Wibke Weber, Martin Engebretsen","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128184415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"25. Making visible politically masked risks : Inspecting unconventional data visualization of the Southeast Asian haze","authors":"A. Suman","doi":"10.1515/9789048543137-029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048543137-029","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution investigates the potential and challenges of data visualization\u0000 in stimulating a socially and legally accountable governance of\u0000 environmental risk affecting public health. The visualization analysed\u0000 results from ‘middle-up’ mapping efforts of the Southeast Asian haze\u0000 performed by environmental NGOs and civil society. It is argued that haze\u0000 governance failures are associated with both a lack of reliable evidence on\u0000 the haze risk and a denied access to existing information. In response to\u0000 this informational gap, unconventional solutions to state haze mapping\u0000 were generated by non-governmental actors. The aim of the chapter is\u0000 to explore to what extent such counter-mapping succeeded in making\u0000 visible politically masked risks, triggering human agency at the individual\u0000 and collective levels, and enabling a more accountable governance of\u0000 the haze risk.","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127899190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The data epic : Visualization practices for narrating life and death at a distance","authors":"J. Gray","doi":"10.5117/9789463722902_ch19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463722902_ch19","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter proposes the notion of the ‘data epic’, which is examined\u0000 through two works of ‘cinematic data visualization’: The Fallen of World\u0000 War II and The Shadow Peace: The Nuclear Threat. These pieces mobilize an\u0000 aesthetics of distance to narrate life and death at scale, in past and possible\u0000 global conflicts. While previous studies of quantification emphasize the\u0000 function of distance in relation to aspirations of objectivity, this chapter\u0000 explores other narrative and affective capacities of distance in the context\u0000 of ‘public data culture’. The data epic can thus enrich understanding of\u0000 how data are rendered meaningful for various publics, as well as the\u0000 entanglement of data aesthetics and data politics involved in visualization\u0000 practices for picturing collective life.","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128993827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}