16. What we talk about when we talk about beautiful data visualizations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of tables 8
4. List of figures 9
5. Acknowledgements 15
6. Foreword: The dawn of a philosophy of visualization 17
7. 1. Introduction : The relationships between graphs, charts, maps and meanings, feelings, engagements 19
8. Section I. Framing data visualization
9. 2. Ways of knowing with data visualizations 35
10. 3. Inventorizing, situating, transforming : Social semiotics and data visualization 49
11. 4. The political significance of data visualization: Four key perspectives 4. The political significance of data visualization: Four key perspectives 63
12. Section II. Living and working with data visualization
13. 5. Rain on your radar : Engaging with weather data visualizations as part of everyday routines 77
14. 6. Between automation and interpretation : Using data visualization in social media analytics companies 95
15. 7. Accessibility of data visualizations : An overview of European statistics institutes 111
16. 8. Evaluating data visualization : Broadening the measurements of success 127
17. 9. Approaching data visualizations as interfaces : An empirical demonstration of how data are imag(in)ed 141
18. 10. Visualizing data: A lived experience 157
19. 11. Data visualization and transparency in the news 169
20. Section III. Data visualization, learning, and literacy
21. 12. What is visual-numeric literacy, and how does it work? 189
22. 13. Data visualization literacy: A feminist starting point 207
23. 14. Is literacy what we need in an unequal data society? 223
24. 15. Multimodal academic argument in data visualization 239
25. Section IV. Data visualization semiotics and aesthetics
26. 16. What we talk about when we talk about beautiful data visualizations 259
27. 17. A multimodal perspective on data visualization 277
28. 18. Exploring narrativity in data visualization in journalism 295
29. 19. The data epic : Visualization practices for narrating life and death at a distance 313
30. 20. What a line can say : Investigating the semiotic potential of the connecting line in data visualizations 329
31. 21. Humanizing data through ‘data comics’ : An introduction to graphic medicine and graphic social science 347
32. Section V. Data visualization and inequalities
33. 22. Visualizing diversity: Data deficiencies and semiotic strategies 369
34. 23. What is at stake in data visualization? A feminist critique of the rhetorical power of data visualizations in the media 391
35. 24. The power of visualization choices: Different images of patterns in space 407
36. 25. Making visible politically masked risks : Inspecting unconventional data visualization of the Southeast Asian haze 425
37. 26. How interactive maps mobilize people in geoactivism 441
38. Index 457