Bringing together scholars from around the world, this collection examines many of the historical developments in making data visible through charts, graphs, thematic maps, and now interactive displays. The contributors analyze this fascinating history through a variety of critical approaches, including visual rhetoric, visual culture, genre theory, and fully contextualized historical scholarship.
Bringing together scholars from around the world, this collection examines many of the historical developments in making data visible through charts, graphs, thematic maps, and now interactive displays. The contributors analyze this fascinating history through a variety of critical approaches, including visual rhetoric, visual culture, genre theory, and fully contextualized historical scholarship.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Miles A. Kimball is Professor and Department Head of Communication and Rhetoric at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Charles Kostelnick is Professor of English at Iowa State University, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction (Charles Kostelnick and Miles A. Kimball) Part 1 Visualizing Bodies: Health, Disease, Evolution The shape of things to come: geometric morphometrics, growth, and evolution (Alan Gross) Florence Nightingale's statistical tables for medical care (Lee Brasseur) Visualizing public health: smallpox epidemics, communicating risk, and changing representations of disease rates (Candice A. Welhausen and Rebecca E. Burnett) Part 2 Visualizing Nations: Moral Statistics, War, Nationalism Moral statistics and the thematic maps of Joseph Fletcher (Robert Cook and Howard Wainer) Innovation and inertia in statistical mapping in 19th- and 20th-century America (Mark Monmonier) Mountains of wealth, rivers of commerce: Michael G. Mulhall's graphics and the imperial gaze (Miles A. Kimball) 'A scheme of cross-roads, orderly and mad': British trench maps of World War I (Marguerite Helmers) Part 3 Examining Visible Numbers: Forms, Methods, Historiographies Mosaics, culture, and rhetorical resiliency: the convoluted genealogy of a data display genre (Charles Kostelnick) The 20th century computer graphics revolution in statistics (Dianne Cook) The milestones project: a database for the history of data visualization (Michael Friendly, Matthew Sigal, and Derek Harnanansingh) Annotated bibliography of scholarship on the history of data graphics (Kevin Van Winkle)
Introduction (Charles Kostelnick and Miles A. Kimball) Part 1 Visualizing Bodies: Health, Disease, Evolution The shape of things to come: geometric morphometrics, growth, and evolution (Alan Gross) Florence Nightingale's statistical tables for medical care (Lee Brasseur) Visualizing public health: smallpox epidemics, communicating risk, and changing representations of disease rates (Candice A. Welhausen and Rebecca E. Burnett) Part 2 Visualizing Nations: Moral Statistics, War, Nationalism Moral statistics and the thematic maps of Joseph Fletcher (Robert Cook and Howard Wainer) Innovation and inertia in statistical mapping in 19th- and 20th-century America (Mark Monmonier) Mountains of wealth, rivers of commerce: Michael G. Mulhall's graphics and the imperial gaze (Miles A. Kimball) 'A scheme of cross-roads, orderly and mad': British trench maps of World War I (Marguerite Helmers) Part 3 Examining Visible Numbers: Forms, Methods, Historiographies Mosaics, culture, and rhetorical resiliency: the convoluted genealogy of a data display genre (Charles Kostelnick) The 20th century computer graphics revolution in statistics (Dianne Cook) The milestones project: a database for the history of data visualization (Michael Friendly, Matthew Sigal, and Derek Harnanansingh) Annotated bibliography of scholarship on the history of data graphics (Kevin Van Winkle)
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