“Elevating emotion and embodiment is the idea that activating emotion – leveraging rather than resisting, emotion in data visualization – can help us learn, remember, and communicate with data in a stronger and more equitable way.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Partial Perspective<\/span><\/strong> : a frame that makes the viewer believe they can see everything, making it appear as though the viewer can see an entirely neutral perspective when that is not exactly true <\/p>\n\n\n\n Data-Ink Ratio<\/span><\/strong> : a view where the designer should strive to use ink to display data alone instead of color and embellishment (this idea creates a false binary between emotion and reason)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rhetoric<\/span><\/strong> : the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion<\/p>\n\n\n\n Framing Effects<\/span><\/strong> : editorial choices that have an impact on how people interpret graphics\/data visualization and what they take away from them<\/p>\n\n\n\n Provenance Rhetoric<\/span><\/strong> : something that is designed to signal the transparency and trustworthiness of the presentation source to end users<\/p>\n\n\n\n Situated<\/span><\/strong> : the idea that forms of knowledge are produced by specific people in specific circumstances – cultural, historical, and geographic<\/p>\n\n\n\n Feminist Objectivity<\/span><\/strong> : a tool that can account for the situated nature of knowledge and can bring together multiple, or partial, perspectives<\/p>\n\n\n\n Strong Objectivity\/Standpoint Theory<\/span><\/strong> : a form of objectivity that works toward a more inclusive knowledge production by centering the perspectives – or standpoints – of groups that are otherwise excluded from he knowledge-making process<\/p>\n\n\n\n Positionality<\/span><\/strong> : a concept that emphasizes how individuals come to knowledge-making processes from multiple positions, each determined by culture and context<\/p>\n\n\n\n Affect<\/span><\/strong> : the term that academics use to refer to emotions and other subjective feelings<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visceralizations<\/span><\/strong> : representations of data that the whole body can experience, emotionally as well as physically<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heuristics<\/span><\/strong> : using mental shortcuts to make judgements<\/p>\n\n\n\n