From analysis to presentation. Information visualization for reifying issues and reenacting insights in visual data analysis

De l’analyse à la présentation. La visualisation d’informations pour la réification des questions et la re-énaction des idées dans l’analyse visuelle des données

Marina Boechat (1) , Tommaso Venturini (2)

1 UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019)
2 DANTE - Dynamic Networks : Temporal and Structural Capture Approach

We discuss the use of information visualization in digital sociology, (particularly in Controversy Mapping), and its role in outlining issues and objects of study through progressive insights. We believe the differences in visualizations between analysis and presentation are better understood as linked by a chain of transformations, rather than as two separate and stable levels of representation. We propose that, through such chain, two research movements are performed: the reification of issues, related to the construction of a stable consensus, and the reenaction of insights, that points to the role of visualizations as communication tools. We will illustrate such movements and effects by using a few examples of visualizations produced in the EMAPS research project.

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Marina Boechat, Tommaso Venturini. From analysis to presentation. Information visualization for reifying issues and reenacting insights in visual data analysis. Les Cahiers du numérique, 2016, 12 (4), pp.185 - 204. ⟨10.3166/LCN.12.4.185-204⟩. ⟨hal-01672299⟩