Introduction Data visualizations—and, by extension, data physicalizations—often make data more accessible visually. Colour-coded graphs and flow charts with graphics and arrows can be easier and quicker to read at a glance than a long table of data or numbers and percentages hidden within long prose. Wearing that data as a scarf is also visually appealing, ...

Since 2020, Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Kalea Furmanek-Raposo have been crafting encounters with humanities data together as literary scholars and in collaboration with university librarians. First, we worked together in a pandemic-era online undergraduate classroom as instructor and student, combining archival research in 19th-century digital databases with 19th-century hands-on scrapbooking practices. Second, we collaborated as ...

Introduction I (Theresa Quill) have been teaching with maps in a library context for over a decade; supporting a wide range of disciplines, levels, and topics. Regardless of the discipline, I often use print maps to illustrate concepts such as visual literacy, authority, bias, accuracy, and the information creation process. I also lead library instruction ...

Introduction Quilting can appear a complicated task at the outset, and rightly so. It uses specialized equipment, patterns, and involves many phases to complete a project. But when broken down into discrete steps, it becomes manageable. The same is true of data visualization: it is a science and also an art, taking sets of data ...

I. Introduction As introduced by Knight in “Black Ribbon for Mourning: Affective Solidarity and Feeling Very Difficult Data” [1], the quantified self movement (also commonly referred to as self-tracking or lifelogging) [2] has been growing and sweeping the nation for over a decade [3]. It has primarily brought attention to user-centered tracking of health data, ...