Critical Visualization Rethinking the Representation of Data

Description

Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Chapter I: An Introduction to Critical Visualization A critical framework Looking at visualization beyond Western paradigms Synopsis of this book Distributed cognition and humanistic approaches Isn’t critique finished? Chapter II: Disruptive Histories Positivism and objectivity A history of progress Critical cartography: a ‘defining moment’ A few examples: not a canon Haptic visualization: the quipu (1200–1532) ‘Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship’ (1789) Polar area diagram (1859) Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (1802–1875) Data visualization at the Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Du Bois, (1900) Community-building with Isotype: Otto and Marie Neurath Conclusion Focus Anna Ridler, Myriad (Tulips) 2018 Chapter III: Making Data Quantitative and qualitative data The role of categorization Focus Data4Change Chapter IV: Data and the Self Taylorism within? Comic critique What is normal? Biometrics and risk-profiling Challenging norms The examined life Focus Margaret Pearce and Michael Hermann — ‘They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places, and Stories from Champlain’s Travels in Canada, 1603–1616’ Chapter V: Data and the City Participatory planning: hector Focus Heath Bunting — Status Project Chapter VI: Beyond Aesthetics and Representation Aesthetics and function Aesthetics and perception Representation as translation Chapter VII: Beyond Critical Visualization Practice Sources Index