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      Using Data Visualisation to tell Stories about Collections

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      Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
      2016

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          The paper explores visualisation of “big data” from digitised museum collections and archives, focusing on the relationship between data, visualisation and narrative. A contrast is presented between visualisations that show “just the data” and those that present the information in such a way as to tell a story using visual rhetorical devices; such devices have historically included trees, streams, chains, geometric shapes and other forms. The contrast is explored through historical examples and a survey of current practice. A discussion centred on visualising datasets from the British Library, Science Museum and Wellcome Library is used to outline key research questions.

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                2016
                July 1 2016
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                10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.44
                6558c26a-093d-4e03-8e09-190a22864559
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