Critical Visualization Rethinking the Representation of Data

258 Pages·2013·76.191 MB·English

by  Peter A. Hall, Patricio Dávila

Critical Visualization
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Critical Visualization
Rethinking the Representation of Data
Peter A. Hall
Patricio Dávila
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Table of Contents 116  Chapter  IV 
Data and the Self
  8  Chapter  I 
An Introduction  122 Taylorism within?
to Critical Visualization 130 Comic critique
135 What is normal?
11 A critical framework 139 Biometrics and risk-profiling
24 L ooking at visualization beyond 144 Challenging norms
Western paradigms 147 The examined life
28 Synopsis of this book
31 Distributed cognition 153 Focus  Margaret Pearce and Michael 
and humanistic approaches Hermann — ‘They Would Not 
35 Isn’t critique finished? Take Me There: People, Places, 
and Stories from Champlain’s 
  44  Chapter  II  Travels in Canada, 1603–1616’
Disruptive Histories
158  Chapter  V 
46 Positivism and objectivity Data and the City
48 A history of progress
50 C ritical cartography: a ‘defining moment’ 174 Participatory planning: hector
52 A few examples: not a canon
52 H aptic visualization: the quipu 178 Focus Heath Bunting — Status Project
(1200–1532)
55 ‘ Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship’   182  Chapter  VI 
(1789) Beyond Aesthetics 
59 Polar area diagram (1859) and Representation
62 G reat Trigonometrical Survey
of India (1802–1875) 184 Aesthetics and function
64 Data visualization at the Paris 192 Aesthetics and perception
Exposition, W.E.B. Du Bois, (1900) 194 Representation as translation
68 Community-building with Isotype:
Otto and Marie Neurath   216  Chapter  VII 
75 Conclusion Beyond Critical Visualization 
Practice
76 Focus A nna Ridler, Myriad (Tulips) 2018
 230 Sources
  82  Chapter  III  248 Index
Making Data
91 Quantitative and qualitative data
96 The role of categorization
108 Focus Data4Change
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Acknowledgements
The idea for this book began to take shape during
a conversation at the Urban Ecologies 2013
conference in Toronto, where we recognised that
our research interests intersected, along with
a shared sense of a missing critical discourse.
A number of events, discussions, and trips helped
the project development, for which we would like to
thank some very supportive people at our respective
institutions past and present: York University and
ocad University (Patricio); Griffith University and
University of the Arts London (Peter). A huge thanks
goes to our contributors, mentors, mediators and
supporters, including:
Danah Abdulla, Janet Abrams, Kim Albrecht,
Heath Bunting, Tim C adman, Lizzie Coles-Kemp,
Tom Corby, Tony Fry, Lorraine Gamman,
Donna Haraway, Alfredo Jaar, Laura Kurgan,
Simon Maidment, Hem Patel, Margaret Pearce,
Philippe Rekacewicz, Damon Rich and Jae Shin,
Anna Ridler, rndr, Bronwen Robertson,
Rebecca Ross, Jeremy Till, and R ebecca Wright.
Special thanks go to our indefatigable research
assistant, Aaron Tucker, illustrator Marc Ngui,
and amazing designer Chris Lee. We would also
like to thank our editorial assistant at Bloomsbury,
Libby Davies, and the editors at Bloomsbury,
Louise Baird-Smith, Rebecca Barden and Lee
Ripley, who sowed the seed back in 2014. Finally,
Peter would like to thank Lana Lê.
P.H. & P.D.
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I
A n Introduction to 
Critical Visualization
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