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Résumé Cet essai vise à démontrer que la sociologie visuelle des paysages vernaculaires peut être utilisée pour documenter et analyser la manière dont un environnement défini, par exemple un quartier, reflète l'action de ses résidents. Il suggère que les méthodes visuelles, complétées par des approches symboliques ou sémiotiques, peuvent construire un pont entre les diverses disciplines théoriques et appliquées qui se concentrent sur la forme et la fonction des métropoles contemporaines. À travers la discussion de certains modèles souvent concurrentiels, le texte illustre les circonstances de transition et de gentrification ethnique à travers une sélection de photographies prises dans diverses villes des États-Unis aussi bien qu'à Cracovie, en Pologne, où les résidents d'un quartier ont expérimenté, pendant les deux dernières décennies, des changements rapides et significatifs.

In this paper I advance the theory of critical communication design by exploring the politics of data, information and knowledge visualisation in three bodies of work. Data reflects power relations, special interests and ideologies that determine which data is collected, what data is used and how it is used. In a review of Max Roser's Our World in Data, I develop the concepts of digital positivism, datawash and darkdata. Looking at the Climaps by Emaps project, I describe how knowledge visualisation can support integrated learning on complex problems and nurture relational perception. Finally, I present my own Mapping Climate Communication project and explain how I used discourse mapping to develop the concept of discursive confusion and illustrate contradictions in this politicised area. Critical approaches to information visualisation reject reductive methods in favour of more nuanced ways of presenting information that acknowledge complexity and the political dimension on issues of controversy.

This is an Open Access Conference Paper. It is published by Design Research Society under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ; In this paper I advance the theory of critical communication design by exploring the politics of data, information and knowledge visualisation in three bodies of work. Data reflects power relations, special interests and ideologies that determine which data is collected, what data is used and how it is used. In a review of Max Roser's Our World in Data, I develop the concepts of digital positivism, datawash and darkdata. Looking at the Climaps by Emaps project, I describe how knowledge visualisation can support integrated learning on complex problems and nurture relational perception. Finally, I present my own Mapping Climate Communication project and explain how I used discourse mapping to develop the concept of discursive confusion and illustrate contradictions in this politicised area. Critical approaches to information visualisation reject reductive methods in favour of more nuanced ways of presenting information that acknowledge complexity and the political dimension on issues of controversy.

AbstractWhile the design of voting advice applications (VAAs) is witnessing an increasing amount of attention, one aspect has until now been overlooked: its visualisations. This is remarkable, as it are those visualisations that communicate to the user the advice of the VAA. Therefore, this article aims to provide a first look at which visualisations VAAs adopt, why they adopt them, and how users comprehend them. For this, I will look at how design choices, specifically those on matching, influence the type of visualisation VAAs not only do but also have to, use. Second, I will report the results of a small-scale experiment that looked if all users comprehend similar visualisations in the same way. Here, I find that this is often not the case and that the interpretations of the users often differ. These first results suggest that VAA visualisations are wrongly underappreciated and demand closer attention of VAA designers.

Sean Snee blogs about how the Analysis Function recommends providing alternative text for data visualisations, to ensure content is accessible to everyone.

Empowerment often refers to the equitable control over available resources. Once empowered, those at the bottom of the ladder have the freedom of choice and of social action. Although any social engineering programme devoted to inequality at the village level seems daunting at first, this study shows that information technology provides the necessary tools to tackle such a challenge. An example of the nutrition and health monitoring system of mother–child dyads from the Attappadi Block in Kerala's Palakkad district is presented as a case study. It shows that targeted solutions for poverty reduction and development are achievable through the marriage of community participation, political will and user-friendly technology. The article demonstrates that the planning, monitoring and evaluation of any development effort must create provisions to hear the voices of the most vulnerable. Information communication tools (ICT) utilising the geographic information system (GIS)-backed management information system (MIS) provides such a platform.

The article is dedicated to the transformation of learning processes. The causal reasons for the widespread use of the fractal approach in the use of techniques and methods of visualising educational information are considered. The specifics of the use of fractal movement in the organisation of the educational process are described. The role and place of the teacher in the management of transfer and disclosure processes is noted. The fractal organisation of the learning route algorithm is characterised by a markedly deep determinism of the factors that determine the purpose and result of learning. The text notes the conditions of filling the thesaurus of the learner, improving its intellectual property in the form of transmission, assimilation and rejection of information. The elements of the thesaurus formed in the fractal educational field orient both the teacher and the learner to an extended view of a qualitatively in-depth approach to presenting in a specific unity of elements of visualised educational material. The connection between the individual abilities of the teacher and the potential of the learner is been traced. The conditions of the optimal combination of information flow and abilities of the learner, determining the success of training, are highlighted. Positive experience of the implementation of the proposed provisions of the educational process implies further analysis of the mechanisms and procedures of the fractal educational space.

Computer visualisation is described as useful instrument, that enables to design urban (municipal) surroundings of highways and other main (supralocal) road communication lines in optimal way. Capabilities of visualisation techniques are presented by selected examples of spatial planning and urban spaces design. The presented examples show importance of urban space perception from viewpoint of road traffic participant. The paper also describes aesthetic issues concerning design of urban and suburban spaces, connected with elements of main transit roads, and their technical infrastructure. Some exemplary design processes of wide near‐by highway areas, using architectural and town planning methodology aided by computer visualisation are described too, as the significance of visual presentation quality is in close connection with specific planning tasks. Computer visualisation, visual information is shown as instruments that allow local communities to participate in design, spatial planning, and legislation. First Published Online: 14 Oct 2010

IntroductionThe Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) Cohort Explorer is an interactive, online visualisation tool that allows users to explore data for a number of DPUK cohorts. Over 30 variables across cohorts have been harmonised, including information on demographics, lifestyle, cognition, health, and genetic biomarkers.
Objectives and ApproachThe tool has been developed to complement existing DPUK cohort metadata to provide a visual representation of participant numbers and field-level information for a selection of cohorts. This enables users to determine a cohort's eligibility before applying for access to a cohort's data, and aid in shaping potential hypotheses. Developed using Microsoft PowerBI, the Explorer hosts a subset of the cohort's baseline, harmonised data, allowing a user to interrogate the visualisations of the uploaded data in a secure manner on the DPUK Data Portal website. Visualisations are linked so that participant numbers and distributions can be explored interactively.
ResultsThis approach allows the user to explore the harmonised data across a number of cohorts simultaneously whilst setting and adjusting filters that are of interest to the user's search criteria. This provides a better understanding of the real-world data and enables the user to determine the feasibility of each cohort for potential studies, whilst facilitating meaningful comparisons across cohorts. The tool currently visualises five DPUK cohorts with a total of 82,391 participants, however it is being incrementally developed with more cohorts being added continually.
Conclusion / ImplicationsBy combing an easy-to-use, interactive dashboard with harmonised sets of real-world data, the tool allows the user to explore, interrogate and better understand field-level information in a secure manner with zero data transfer. This provides more insight for the user when applying for access to a cohort dataset using the DPUK Data Portal and may help the user to make more informed decisions and/or hypotheses.