VAMOS!

A reading group discussing interdisciplinary topics around Visualisation, Analytics, Mapping, Openness and Social.

Weds 26^th April to Weds 14^th June 2023:

• Vamos RE:making

20 - October 31^st 2022:

• IntroductionLink opens in a new window and Chapter 1 (The Stakes of SuspicionLink opens in a new window) from The Limits of Critique - Rita Felski (2015)

19 - June 24^th 2021:

• “Why computing belongs within the social sciences” – Randy Connolly (2020)

18 - June 10^th 2021:

[Bring-your-own-material] Based on the previous session, we will share and discuss our own pieces of diagrammatic writing.

17 - May 27^th 2021:

• “Diagrammatic Writing” – Johanna Drucker (2013)

16 - May 13^th 2021:

• “Viral Visualizations: How Coronavirus Skeptics Use Orthodox Data Practices to Promote Unorthodox Science OnlineLink opens in a new window” – Crystal Lee et al. (2021)

15 - February 9^th 2021:

• Introduction of “Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'iLink opens in a new window” – Candace Fujikane (2021)

14 - November 26^th 2020:

• [Bring-your-own-material] Choose an inspiring written/audio/video material that you engaged with lately and tell us all about it!

13 - November 12^th 2020:

• [YouTube] “Data VIS for Empowerment and InclusionLink opens in a new window” - Sheelagh Carpendale (IEEE VIS 2020 capstone)

12 - October 29^th 2020:

• “How Data Science Workers Work with Data: Discovery, Capture, Curation, Design, Creation” – Michael Muller et al. (2019)
  

11 - June 23^rd 2020:

• [Medium] “W. E. B. Du Bois' staggering Data Visualizations are as powerful today as they were in 1900 (Part 1)Link opens in a new window” – Jason Forrest (2018)
• [Medium] “The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois’s “The Exhibit of American Negroes” (Part 5)Link opens in a new window” – Jason Forrest (2018)
• [YouTube] Mona Chalabi recreates W. E. B. Du Bois's infographics with modern dataLink opens in a new window (2020)

10 - June 9^th 2020:

• [Places Journal] “Urban Auscultation; or, Perceiving the Action of the Heart” – Shannon Mattern (2020)
• “CityNet—Deep learning tools for urban ecoacoustic assessment” – Alison J. Fairbrass et al. (2018)

9 - May 12^th 2020:

• "On Scientific Observation" - Lorraine Daston (2008)

8 - April 28^th 2020:

• “Data by Proxy — Material Traces as Autographic Visualizations” - Dietmar Offenhuber (2019)

7 - April 14^th 2020:

• “What we talk about when we talk about context” - Paul Dourish (2004)

6 - March 31^st 2020:

• [Multiple Views blog post] “The Curious Absence of Uncertainty from Many (Most?) Visualizations” - Jessica Hullman (2019)
• [PolicyViz podcast episode] “DataViz in the Time of COVID” – John Schwabish, Amanda Makulec, Jennifer Manganello, Kenneth Field and Alberto Cairo (2020)

5 - March 17^th 2020:

• “’An interesting paper but not sufficiently theoretical’: What does theorising in social research look like?” – Michael Hammond (2018)
• “Logics of interdisciplinarity” - Andrew Barry, Georgina Born & Gisa Weszkalnys (2008)

4 - December 3^rd 2019:

• “The Feeling of Numbers: Emotions in Everyday Engagements with Data and Their Visualisation” - Helen Kennedy and Rosemary Lucy Hill (2017)
• “Rethinking Maps” - Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge (2007)

3 - October 29^th 2019:

• “Criteria for Rigor in Visualization Design Study” - Miriah Meyer and Jason Dykes (2019)
• “The New Statistics for Better Science: Ask How Much, How Uncertain, and What Else Is Known” - Robert J. Calin-Jageman and Geoff Cumming (2018)

2 - August 6^th 2019:

• “Representation and Misrepresentation: Tufte and the Morton Thiokol Engineers on the Challenger” – Wade Robison et al. (2002)
• Pages 38-54 of “Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative” – Edward R. Tufte (1997)

1 - June 25^th 2019:

• “Non-representational approaches to modeling interpretation in a graphical environment” - Johanna Drucker (2018)