Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data

Critical VisualizationRethinking the Representation of DataInformation 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. 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.Additional ISBNs9781350077249Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data 1st Edition is written by Peter A. Hall; Patricio Dávila and published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts. ISBNs for Critical Visualization are 9781350077256, 1350077259 and the print ISBNs are 9781350077232, 1350077232. Additional ISBNs include 9781350077249.