Every Datapoint a Person
The Brooks / Diagram of a Slave Ship
Before there are data, there are people. People who offer up their
lives as data -- or whose lives become data without consent.
What Visualization Reveals
William Playfair's Time-Series Charts
Data visualization has never been neutral or objective. There is a
meaning -- and an argument -- conveyed through each design.
Narratives of Possession
Emma Willard and Shanawdithit’s Narrative Maps
Maps can create nations and contest them.
How have maps been used
to document multiple pasts?
The Work of Knowledge
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s Chronological Grids as Argument
We have come to believe that data visualizations should be clear and
efficient. Is there value in designs that make us pause and
reflect?
Between Data and Truth
W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Data Portraits”
How can data visualization bear witness to oppression? How can it hold
space for what cannot be conveyed through data alone?
Labour
W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Data Portraits”
How can data visualization bear witness to oppression? How can it hold
space for what cannot be conveyed through data alone?