What Role Does Emotion Play in Data Visualization?

Decoding Possibilities (2017) by Ron Romi Morrison and Treva Ellison, is an artistic examination of redlining’s effects in the landscape as well as a celebration of creative resistance to redlining. Contemporary maps of Boston are combined with historic redlining maps, as well as maps created from the Combahee River Collective’s writings. Courtesy of Ron Romi Morrison and Treva Ellison.

This article was adapted from Data Feminism, a book by researchers Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein that explores “a way of thinking about data and its communication that is informed by intersectional feminist thought and action.”

In 2012, twenty kindergarten children and six adults were shot and killed at an elementary school in Sandy Hook, CT. In the wake of this…