Ethnographic Data Visualization

The world has become datafied (measured, classified, digitized, sold, amassed as data), and visualizations are a potent public medium. They drive critical concerns like global warming and inequality, and can be used with many other disciplinary issues. We connect data vis to our challenges to intelligibly represent the complex relationships, forces, and multiple scales embedded in ethnographic settings and theories. If data vis gives us a grip on these imperceptible factors, and the datafied world, what gets filtered out of data or optics? We will critically use data vis tools alongside other modalities to enrich our anthropological vision.