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.

1. Visualizing
personal network
data
Examples from a study on
EDs websites
Antonio Casilli
Telecom ParisTech, Paris
Paola Tubaro
University of Greenwich, London

2. Pro-ana?
•
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

3. Mixed methods, mixed data…
• 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

4. Defining datavisualization
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“The desire to take what normally falls
outside of the scale of human senses
and to make visible and manageable”
[Manovich 2002]
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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

5. Simple vulgarization tool?
«Pourquoi la censure et le filtrage ne marchent pas?», Le Monde, 16 Nov. 2012
http://internetactu.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/11/16/pourquoi-la-censure-et-le-filtrage-ne-marchent-pa

6. Balance diverging exigencies
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Scientific accuracy
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Aesthetics
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Accessibility
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Cognitive effectiveness
 Engage with social contexts
of consumption of these
images

7. The role of end-users
•
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]

8. 1st tool: Visualization for data collection
ANAMIA EGOCENTER (2010-11) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAlSaDdAaC0

9. 1st tool: Visualization for data collection
Face-to-face egocentered networks

10. 1st tool: Visualization for data collection
Online egocentered networks

11. The role of researchers
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Situate data in an interpretative
setting
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This requires building tools allowing
to sort, order, analyze and present
what we agree on calling source or
“raw” data
•
The issue of transdisciplinarity…

12. 2nd tool: Visualization for data analysis
ANAMIA CORPUS (2012-13) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIxqG6j0Izs

13. The politics of data visualization
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Take into account the politics of
quantified data representation
(reminiscent of the debates about
“who controls what’s on traditional
media”)
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Establishing priorities, selecting
methods and procedures
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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”

14. 3nd tool: Datavisualization for “heuristic narrative”
ANAMIA PERSONAL (2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-eR0SnFI2M

15. Thank you!
E-mail:
coordination@anamia.fr
Web:
http://www.anamia.fr
Twitter:
@anamia