Peter A. Hall, Patricio Dávila

Critical Visualization (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking the Representation of Data

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Information may be beautiful, but our decisions about the data we choose to represent and how we represent it are never neutral. This insightful history traces how data visualization accompanied modern technologies of war, colonialism and the management of social issues of poverty, health and crime. The discussion is based around examples of visualization, from the ancient Andean information technology of the quipu to contemporary projects that show the fate of our rubbish and take a participatory approach to visualizing cities. This analysis places visualization in its theoretical and cultural contexts, and provides a critical framework for understanding the history of information design with new directions for contemporary practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350077256
• Artikelnr.: 66390070

Autorenporträt

Peter A. Hall is Reader in Graphic Design at CCW, University of the Arts London, UK. His publications include Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data, co-authored with Patricio Dávila (Bloomsbury, 2022), Sagmeister: Made You Look (2009), Else/Where: Mapping - New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, co-edited with Janet Abrams (2005) and Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1. An Introduction to Critical Visualization Defining the field Looking at
Visualization beyond Western Paradigms Alternative Western perspectives:
Distributed Cognition and Humanistic Approaches 2. 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 3. Making Data Qualitative and
Quantitative Data The Role of Categorization Focus: Data4Change - Keepiton
- Hear the Blind Spot - Perceiving Yemen 4. 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 5. Data and the City
Participatory planning: HECTOR Focus: Heath Bunting: Status Project 6.
Aesthetics and Representation Aesthetics and Representation Representation
as Translation 7. Beyond Critical Visualization Practice