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1Stamen Design, 2017 Mission Street No. 300, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
Abstract:
Science, in the popular imagination, is about finding answers to questions. Scientists make discoveries, develop theories, and deliver those discoveries and theories to audiences with an interest in the truth as backed up by science. Well-designed data visualization (dataviz), by contrast, can generate and address not only new questions but new kinds of questions. It has the particular quality of allowing its viewers, users, and makers the ability to generate new inquiries, and to put them in a better place to answer them. Dataviz offers esthetic and interactive platforms for discussion and inquiry that can help scientists to both do their work and better communicate their work to broader audiences. Here I will illustrate and examine case studies from multiple points along the rich and varied possibility space that opens up when science and dataviz work together. I will also introduce three communication principles that I have learned from my involvement with hundreds of dataviz projects over the years. Well-designed dataviz can help scientists and those involved with science find ways to navigate the multiple competing interests and priorities inherent in both communication to non-scientists and exploratory data-rich interfaces.
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