Critical visualization : rethinking the representation of data /
Hall, Peter A.,
Critical visualization : rethinking the representation of data / Peter A. Hall and Patricio Davila. - First edition. - London [England] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022 - online resource (208 pages).
"Information may be beautiful, but our decisions about the data we choose to represent and how we represent it are never neutral. Peter Hall and Patricio Davila's insightful history traces how data visualization accompanied modern technologies of war, colonialism and the management of social issues of poverty, health and crime. Their discussion is based around fifty examples of visualization, from Florence Nightingale's diagrams of causes of mortality in the Crimean War to contemporary infographics that show the mass incarceration crisis in the American inner city. This analysis places visualization in its theoretical and cultural contexts, providing a critical framework for understanding the history of information design with new directions for contemporary practice."--
9781350077270;9781350077256
System theory
Visualization.
Electronic books.
153.12
Critical visualization : rethinking the representation of data / Peter A. Hall and Patricio Davila. - First edition. - London [England] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022 - online resource (208 pages).
"Information may be beautiful, but our decisions about the data we choose to represent and how we represent it are never neutral. Peter Hall and Patricio Davila's insightful history traces how data visualization accompanied modern technologies of war, colonialism and the management of social issues of poverty, health and crime. Their discussion is based around fifty examples of visualization, from Florence Nightingale's diagrams of causes of mortality in the Crimean War to contemporary infographics that show the mass incarceration crisis in the American inner city. This analysis places visualization in its theoretical and cultural contexts, providing a critical framework for understanding the history of information design with new directions for contemporary practice."--
9781350077270;9781350077256
System theory
Visualization.
Electronic books.
153.12