235 TWELVE Evaluating the visualisation of dynamic biomechanical data for healthcare and design Alastair S. Macdonald Introduction The ‘Envision’ research described in this chapter was conducted between late 2007 and early 2009, the first of the New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) projects to complete. The findings from the project provided the platform for further Research Councils UK funding to continue our research in this area, and so although our account is now somewhat historical, and some of the statements arising from our findings at the time relate to
379 51 Remapping the world’s population: visualizing data using cartograms1 ArcUser (2010) no 1, pp 66–69 The Worldmapper project has successfully produced a series of maps to visualize data concerning a range of issues facing the modern world based on the idea of density-equalizing maps. With this approach, ArcGIS 9.3 plays a crucial role as an interface to convert suitable raster datasets and produce updated cartograms. The data is converted using ArcMap’s ArcToolbox, while the cartograms were calculated using a geoprocessing tool available from ESRI
). The broad aim of this article is to show that the geographical mapping of carers over a 14-year period can make visible spatial shifts in caring over time in order to better inform policy, and can use a set of ‘big data’ to visualise the spatial impacts of policy decisions. We map carer data from the Irish national censuses of 2002, 2006, 2011 and 2016 as a case study that can inform wider international comparative study. An additional core objective of the article is to map the relative spread of informal/unpaid/family caring in Ireland between the four dates for
, happy moments in the picturesque medieval city by sending pictures to friends abroad, I started thinking of visualizing happiness in research. We live in a visual world and the current accounts of postmodern culture emphasize the increasingly visual aspects of our lives (Buchanan and Huczynski, 2010 ). As Belk ( 2017 : 79) states, ‘the saturation of visual representations in our lives has never been greater’. There are global trends towards a greater role for, and new forms of, visual information. The arts, social media and advertisements ‘render the world in visual
349 27 Critical statistical literacy and interactive data visualisations Jim Ridgway, James Nicholson, Sinclair Sutherland and Spencer Hedger Introduction: conceptions of statistical literacy One can trace advocacy for what we might now call ‘critical statistical literacy’ (CSL) at least as far back as the eighteenth century. Writing early in the French Revolution, Condorcet (1792/1994) proposed the idea of savoir liberateur – knowledge about governance and social inequality that would engage citizens, and would motivate them to reconstruct society
123 9 Enhancing museum visits through the creation of data visualisation to support the recording and sharing of experiences Ian Gwilt, Patrick McEntaggart, Melanie Levick-Parkin and Jonathan Wood Introduction This project explores the use of a practice-led research methodology in the design of generative data visualisations that can be used to record and reveal the details of an empiric museum visit. The object of capturing this visitor information is to assist in the future design and development of tools for the creation of interactive museum
INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE Visualizing violence: aesthetics and ethics in international politics Gabi Schlag and Anna Geis Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany Introduction US President Donald Trump’s daily use of twitter and his attack on what he calls ‘fake news’ reminds us that media, either ‘old’ or ‘new’, are sites of power and conflict. Tweets, meme and videos seem to be the favored communication, entertainment, even disin- formation tool not only for President Trump but many people worldwide. It is well
43 FOUR Digitising and visualising: old media, new media and the pursuit of emerging urban publics Scott Rodgers Questions of publics and publicness, as the previous two chapters have shown, open up questions of media and mediation. Habermas’s (1989) public sphere inextricably links public communication to the practices and institutions of mass media (cf. Garnham, 1992). By contrast, much contemporary debate, both popular and academic, has paid attention to the proliferation of new media technologies and practices that apparently blur long
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