Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data

by Peter A. Hall and Patricio Davila

Book Overview

Information 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350077232
• ISBN13: 9781350077232
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 256 Pages