Talking Charts: How are everyday visualisations produced and understood? @ Data Stories 2022

On May 23rd Laura Koesten and Kathleen Gregory will be giving a talk at the Data Stories Conference 2022.

When: May 23rd 2022, 18:25-18:55

Central European University, Quellenstraße 51-55, 1100 Vienna, Austria (hybrid event) 

Program: https://datastoriesceu.org/program 

Project Website: https://talking-charts.vda.univie.ac.at/ 

 

Abstract: 

Talking Charts: How are everyday visualisations produced and understood?

Urgent messages with immediate effects on public life, i.e. the exponential growth of COVID-19 or the pace of climate change, are often communicated via data visualizations. It is not clear whether public interpretations of these visualisations match the messages their creators aim to convey. The same is true for data visualisations in science; it is not a given that experts will interpret them the way they are intended.

In this talk, we introduce Talking Charts, a three-year mixed methods project which explores how charts related to climate change and COVID-19 are created and understood by researchers and public audiences. We give an overview of the project and discuss initial results and studies focusing on everyday visualisations.