Data visualization is the raw, unprocessed facts, figures, data observations etc. Used to make decision. It looks like a database, spreadsheets, quantifiable nature to them. Whereas the data visualization backend part is the visual nice part of visual journalism.
Read the article in the slides. Data could be anything that you observe in the world. Wind compass or wind chimes are also data visualization. There’s a inherent nature of data visualization from ourselves, fun and everything. Morning stones in cementeries put by Jewish people, each person that visits a grave. Old tree, also shows rings of growing. Observable phenomena.
Quantifiable observations of the world translated into meaning.
Different hearts of when thinking about data. She’s into the visualizatino size.
Graph is only as good as the data.
Data availability has changed regional based. Climate data not only being collected in the same way.
China, star charts. Planetary movements. Predated really early. It changes over cultures. The Marshall Islands Seafaring Chart, It shows the flow of current, but not get enough recognition. Check the class links.
Quipu: record a number of legal matters, they used to track senses of population of ancient data. Ceremonial significance but a way to record and visualizing data.