Data Visualization/Cultural Facts

As the world becomes datafied (measured, classified, digitized, sold, amassed as data), what kinds of facts do data visualizations signify? And could they be used in cultural analysis and expression? We situate data viz in anthropology's ongoing mission to make intelligible the complexities of social relationships, forces, and scales in ethnographic settings. We also track cultural facts that resist being datafied or even visualized. In journalism, data viz has become a medium in its own right as it tackles issues such as global warming and inequality. Let's pick up the tools of data viz and find out how we can do anthropology with them.