80 | Indexical Visualization with Dietmar Offenhuber
from Data Stories Hosted by Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner
We have Dietmar Offenhuber, Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, on the show again to talk about “Indexical Visualizations”: visualizations that reduce the gap between the recorded phenomenon and its representation. On the show we talk about strategies to define and build indexical visualizations. Dietmar provides numerous examples, including thermometers, tree rings, petri dishes, and the blinking lights in your router. He also offers tips on experimenting with this kind of visualization and connecting to the indexical vis community.
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- 0:14 Our sponsor: Tableau
- 1:01 Presenting our new theme music
- 2:09 Enrico and Moritz catch up on their summer
- 3:01 Re-Introducing Dietmar Offenhuber
- 3:45 What is Indexical Visualization?
- 6:58 Smoke, thermometers, and dust masks traces that make hidden realities visible
- 9:03 Limits to indexical visualizations: the problem of specificity
- 12:22 Scaling the distance between physical reality and its visualization
- 13:58 How we read symbolic visualizations
- 15:21 The difference between data visualization and indexical visualization
- 17:47 Our sponsor: Tableau
- 21:56 Abstraction and lost emotional impact
- 30:43 How to get started with indexical visualization
- 34:17 Examples of indexical visualization from past Data Stories episodes
- 38:51 Rate us and get in touch
- 40:04 Our sponsor: Tableau
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