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During postgraduate studies, I have organized and classified the reading materials, lectures and related academic activities I've perused during my postgraduate study in chronological sequence.

They are segregated into five primary classifications: web/podcast, book/article, composition of data visualization and theory/term.

Each segment on the timeline features a concise overview and the author's background.





1869





It shows Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, three years before the Battle of Waterloo.




   

1885
Étienne-Jules Marey
Train Schedule

A graphical train schedule with a timetable and graphic representation of speed.
 


   

1973
Herman Chernoff
Chernoff faces

The idea behind using faces is that humans easily recognize faces and notice small changes without difficulty.




   

1988
Contents of the journal reflect its commitment to publishing an interdisciplinary body of feminist knowledge, in multiple genres that views the intersection of gender with racial identity, sexual orientation, economic means, geographical location, and physical ability as the touchstone for its intellectual analysis


 

1993
“ I have great hope for the future that we’re going to rediscover the acoustic environment in which we live, and that we’re going to celebrate it and we’re gonna save it. ”




1995
Michel Serres
The natural contract
“We depend on the world, which depends on us.”


 

2001
Five principles in the theory of data graphics
Above all else show the data.
Maximize the data-ink ratio.
Erase non-data-ink.
Erase redundant data-ink.
Revise and edit.




2002
Map design can be thought of as mind design; the way a map is designed will influence the views of the world it stimulates or inhabits.

   

2003



   

2005
An independent educational non-profit fighting global misconceptions.



   
2011
This graphic was created to mark the end of the United States' military engagement in Iraq in 2011. Over 4,800 coalition soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives in the war.

One deliberate design choice with this graphic was the visual metaphor of blood. This striking visual would hopefully draw the reader into the graphic.



 

2013
Data are units or morsels of information that in aggregate form the bedrock of modern policy decisions by government and nongovernmental authorities.



   

2014
Drucker outlines the principles by which visual formats organize meaningful content.
‘Language of form’ = Visual language.



   
2014
Steven Heller
Raw Data presents work by seventy-three of the world’s most innovative information graphics designers.




   

2014
Catherine D'Ignazio & Lauren Klein
The politics of data collection, data creation and data visualisation, by recognising the blindspots, bias and objectivity of how data can be collected, and how it’s visualised.




2017
Arturo Escobar
Noting that most design - from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments - currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collaborative and placed-based approaches.




2017
Cathy O'Neil
Algorithms decide who gets a loan, who gets a job interview, who gets insurance and much more -- but they don't automatically make things fair. Mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil coined a term for algorithms that are secret, important and harmful: "weapons of math destruction."




2017
Steven Braun
Data Visualisation for success

Different definitions of data visualizations.






2017




2018
Mimi Ọnụọha
Black folks are both over-collected and under-represented in American datasets, featuring strongly as objects of collection but rarely as subjects with agency over collection, ownership, and power.






2018
Tiara Roxanne
How to gather and create knowledge.





2019
Colin Ware





2019
Abigail Echo-Hawk
As a dedicated community volunteer, Ms. Echo-Hawk has concentrated on policy and institutional change to eliminate disparities for women of color locally and nationally.




2019
Alex Fefegha
A speculative provocation responding to the theme of Better Machine Decision Making for MozFest 2019's Arts & Culture Experience.





2019

“The newspaper speaks with its reader not only with the help of the printed word, but also the language of visual images.”




2020
Harry Stevens
It shows how to slow 2019 coronavirus.





2020
John Burn-Murdoch
Reliable pictures of the global coronavirus pandemic "Without data it would be very easy for governments to tell their own story".





2020
Andy Kirk
A neutral view of data viz.





2020
The term has been used to include all racialized women, it is a framework to understand the complex and overlapping layers of inequities that face them.





2021
Alex Fefegha
To explore what could happen if Alex could train a machine learning model on hip hop and allow it to generate stories, poems or advice to an audience.



2021
Frederick Reiber

“There are many elements that go into creating a successful tabletop game. These can include the components, rulebooks, and art. One of the most important, are the rules that players use to interact with the game and each other.”




2021
Xingyu Lan et al.

“In the context of storytelling, animation is more frequently viewed as a useful technique to support the narratives of data stories and keep users engaged.”



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