Who controls a visualization? @framoriniii presents our paper »Critical Interactivity: Exploration and Narration in Data Visualization« at #EuroVis2026 in Nottingham!

📆 Today 4pm in Room F4: Design Frameworks & Critical Perspectives

We see critical interactivity as the negotiation of authority and agency between authors and viewers. Across four case studies, we show how it links exploration and narration.

📄 Open access in IEEE CG&A: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2025.3544684

#DataVis #Design #CriticalDataVis

New paper ✨

»Conceptual Analogues: Coming to Terms with Data Visualisation«

https://doi.org/10.11588/ic.2025.1.113533

In which I propose conceptual analogues as terms that fuse theory and practice to expand the language of data visualization. It is based on a contribution to the early-pandemic workshop »What is the Digital Doing?« and is out now in a special issue of Interface Critique, edited by Nina Tolksdorf and Lindsey Drury.

#DataVis #Critique #Theory #CriticalDataVis #DigitalHumanities #InterfaceDesign

Revisiting Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization by @laurenfklein and the team at Emory University. Such a neat way to present the history of data visualization: https://dev.dataxdesign.io

While the book is forthcoming, the website already offers an impressive investigation into the contexts of historic maps and charts — featuring annotated originals and interactive recreations.

#DataVis #DigitalHumanities #InterfaceDesign #CriticalDataVis #History #ScrollyTelling #Literacy

Part I of CG&A SI on #CriticalDataVis is out https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/cg/2025/03 and we contribute two papers on interactivity and storytelling in #DataVis:

Toward Collective Storytelling: Investigating Audience Annotations in Data Visualizations
https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2025.3547944

Critical Interactivity: Exploration and Narration in Data Visualization
https://doi.org/10.1109/mcg.2025.3544684

Big thanks to editors Georgia Panagiotidou @mcnuttandrew @gotdairyya @nicolehengesbach Miriah Meyer!

#FHPotsdam #OpenAccess #InterfaceDesign

Two new papers on #Storytelling & #DataVis to be part of special issue of IEEE CG&A on #CriticalDataVis:

Critical Interactivity: Exploration and Narration in Data Visualization
by @framoriniii Manuela Garretón @jona Nadia Zeissig @SabineDG @fidel @dielindada @ikyriazi Andrea Scholz & @nrchtct
https://doi.org/10.1109/mcg.2025.3544684

Towards Collective Storytelling: Investigating Audience Annotations in Data Visualizations
by @tobiaskauer @nrchtct & Benjamin Bach
https://doi.org/10.1109/mcg.2025.3547944

#OpenAccess #FHPotsdam

with Data by Design @laurenfklein and team offer a counter history of data visualization in the form of an interactive book featuring a range of visual and interactive materials to engage with – the project is now up for community review:

https://dataxdesign.io/

loving the "scrollytells" highlighting and explaining certain parts, variants, or layers of selected visualizations. so smart and so useful for teaching critical literacy!

#History #CriticalDataVis #DataVis #ScrollyTelling #Literacy

critical response by Roland Paulsen to Hans Rosling with main criticisms being that national averages disregard social inequalities within countries, selective use of GDP and lifespan as indicators for prosperity and health, and problematic message that life under capitalism just gets better and better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoIcsj9ysvs

here is the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

/via Ida Flik

#Data #DataVis #PublicHealth #SocialInequality #CriticalStatistics #CriticalDataStudies #CriticalDataVis