visualizing personal network data. examples from a study on eds websites
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Presentation by Antonio A. Casilli and Paola Tubaro of the data visualization tools developed for the ANAMIA research project (ANR-09-ALIA-001). CBNA Seminar, Hamilton House, University of Greenwich, London. 18 November 2013.TRANSCRIPT
Visualizing personal network dataExamples from a study on EDs websites
Antonio Casilli
Telecom ParisTech, Paris
Paola Tubaro
University of Greenwich, London
• Recurrent moral panic around websites on eating disorders, but effects on socialisation and health unclear
• The ANAMIA project: http://www.anamia.fr/en/
• Our approach: a personal networks perspective
• Map structure of relationships, investigate linkages with behaviours
• Reaching out to this population and comparing their online and offline networks
Pro-ana?
• Web data, quantitative survey, qualitative interviews
• 3 personal network datasets per respondent (face-to-face, online, support)
• Multiple methods employed in the analysis – SNA, regression, agent-based computer simulation, textual analysis
• Dataviz as more general support
Mixed methods, mixed data…
• “The desire to take what normally falls outside of the scale of human senses and to make visible and manageable” [Manovich 2002]
• Common tropes emerge: maps, natural metaphors (trees…), timelines, graphs…
• “Sensory expression -- most often visual, sometimes sonic or tactile -- is the only means to perceive many contemporary data sets” [Diamond 2010]
Grant access to information in an aesthetically informed, sensorly appealing manner
Defining datavisualization
Simple vulgarization tool?
«Pourquoi la censure et le filtrage ne marchent pas?», Le Monde, 16 Nov. 2012http://internetactu.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/11/16/pourquoi-la-censure-et-le-filtrage-ne-marchent-pas-lexemple-des-reseaux-lies-aux-troubles-de-lalimentation/
• Scientific accuracy
• Aesthetics
• Accessibility
• Cognitive effectiveness
Engage with social contexts of consumption of these images
Balance diverging exigencies
• The page-based paradigm of the web has been interrupted by database incursions[Liu, 2004].
• Personal, everyday experience of data immersion and navigation shape individual “data-subjectivity” [Manovich 2002]
The role of end-users
1st tool: Visualization for data collection
ANAMIA EGOCENTER (2010-11) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAlSaDdAaC0
Face-to-face egocentered networks
1st tool: Visualization for data collection
Online egocentered networks
1st tool: Visualization for data collection
• Situate data in an interpretative setting
• This requires building tools allowing to sort, order, analyze and present what we agree on calling source or “raw” data
• The issue of transdisciplinarity…
The role of researchers
2nd tool: Visualization for data analysis
ANAMIA CORPUS (2012-13) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIxqG6j0Izs
• Take into account the politics of quantified data representation (reminiscent of the debates about “who controls what’s on traditional media”)
• Establishing priorities, selecting methods and procedures
• Not sticking to tight scientific “realism”, but making sense of the data by building “heuristic narratives” which resound with (but are not limited to) empirical data.
• “Telling stories with data”
The politics of data visualization
3nd tool: Datavisualization for “heuristic narrative”
ANAMIA PERSONAL (2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-eR0SnFI2M
Thank you!
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