Data Visualization in Society

Today we are witnessing an increased use of data visualization in society. Across domains such as work, education and the news, various forms of graphs, charts and maps are used to explain, convince and tell stories. In an era in which more and more data are produced and circulated digitally, and di...

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Hlavní autoři: Engebretsen, Martin, Kennedy, Helen
Médium: E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2020
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ISBN:9789463722902, 9463722904, 9789048543137, 9048543134
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  • Table of Contents List of tables List of figures Acknowledgements Foreword: The dawn of a philosophy of visualization Title, Copyright 1. Introduction: The relationships between graphs, charts, maps and meanings, feelings, engagements Section I: Framing data visualization 2. Ways of knowing with data visualizations 3. Inventorizing, situating, transforming: Social semiotics and data visualization 4. The political significance of data visualization: Four key perspectives Section II: Living and working with data visualization 5. Rain on your radar: Engaging with weather data visualizations as part of everyday routines 6. Between automation and interpretation: Using data visualization in social media analytics companies 7. Accessibility of data visualizations: An overview of European statistics institutes 8. Evaluating data visualization: Broadening the measurements of success 9. Approaching data visualizations as interfaces: An empirical demonstration of how data are imag(in)ed 10. Visualizing data: A lived experience Cover 11. Data visualization and transparency in the news Section III: Data visualization, learning, and literacy 12. What is visual-numeric literacy, and how does it work? 13. Data visualization literacy: A feminist starting point 14. Is literacy what we need in an unequal data society? 15. Multimodal academic argument in data visualization Section IV: Data visualization semiotics and aesthetics 16. What we talk about when we talk about beautiful data visualizations 17. A multimodal perspective on data visualization 18. Exploring narrativity in data visualization in journalism 19. The data epic: Visualization practices for narrating life and death at a distance 20. What a line can say: Investigating the semiotic potential of the connecting line in data visualizations 21. Humanizing data through 'data comics': An introduction to graphic medicine and graphic social science Section V: Data visualization and inequalities 22. Visualizing diversity: Data deficiencies and semiotic strategies 23. What is at stake in data visualization? A feminist critique of the rhetorical power of data visualizations in the media 24. The power of visualization choices: Different images of patterns in space 25. Making visible politically masked risks: Inspecting unconventional data visualization of the Southeast Asian haze 26. How interactive maps mobilize people in geoactivism Index