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Seeing what is not shown : combining visualization critique and design to surface the limitations in data
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Hengesbach, Nicole, McInerny, Greg J. and Porto de Albuquerque, Joao (2022) Seeing what is not shown : combining visualization critique and design to surface the limitations in data. Information Design Journal, 27 (1). pp. 64-75. doi:10.1075/idj.22006.hen ISSN 0142-5471.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.22006.hen
Abstract
Critical studies of data visualization often highlight how the reductive nature of visualization methods excludes data limitations and qualities that are crucial to understanding those data. This case study explores how a data visualization could express contingent, situated, and contextual facets of data. Our approach examines how such data limitations might be surfaced and represented within visualizations through an interplay between the critique of an existing data visualization and the development of alternative designs. Based on a case study of urban tree data, we interrogate data limitations in relation to four different types of missingness: Incompleteness, Emptiness, Absence, and Nothingness. Our study enables reflections on how data limitations can be investigated using visualizations and considers the development of a critical visualization practice.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Information Design Journal | ||||||||
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0142-5471 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 64-75 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1075/idj.22006.hen | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 November 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 December 2022 | ||||||||
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