{"id":1867,"date":"2021-12-06T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:39:06","slug":"making-the-invisible-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/2021\/12\/06\/making-the-invisible-visible\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Invisible Visible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">Making the Invisible Visible<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/12\/Vis4GoodSummary-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A grid of 10 pros &amp; cons titled: Possible benefits and risks of disclosing 5 kinds of invisible metadata. This set of potential benefits and risks is a sample of the list from out paper: &quot;Making the Invisible Visible: Risks and Benefits of Disclosing Metadata in Visualization&quot; at bit.ly\/Metadata4Good . The information in the grid says: \nData source - Benefit: replicability, risk: Loss of trust via mistrust of original data collector. \nCleaning and Processing - Benefit: Increased credibility, risk: Undeserved critique; \nVisual encoding: Potential pitfalls - Benefit: Help reader learn where errors might occur, risk: Knowing about a problem doesn't stop it from occurring\nVisualization creator - Benefit: Understand whose perspective is represented, risk: Loss of trust via testimonial injustice\nIntended audience - Benefit: Justification for design decisions, risk: Alienate some readers\" class=\"wp-image-1858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/12\/Vis4GoodSummary-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/12\/Vis4GoodSummary-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/12\/Vis4GoodSummary-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/12\/Vis4GoodSummary-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/12\/Vis4GoodSummary.jpg 1587w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Led by: <\/strong>Alyxander Burns<strong><br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2108.13270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" class=\"wp-image-1508\" style=\"width: 18px\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf.png\" alt=\"pdf\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf.png 2000w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf-1536x1536.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/> Making the Invisible Visible: Risks and Benefits of Disclosing Metadata in Visualization<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eo22Xg6MCmk?t=7483\" data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1511\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/video.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/video.png 1600w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/video-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/video-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/video-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/video-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/video-1536x1536.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 18px) 100vw, 18px\" \/> Talk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accompanying a data visualization with metadata may benefit readers by facilitating content understanding, strengthening trust, and providing accountability. However, providing this kind of information may also have negative, unintended consequences, such as biasing readers&#8217; interpretations, a loss of trust as a result of too much transparency, and the possibility of opening visualization creators with minoritized identities up to undeserved critique. To help future visualization researchers and practitioners decide what kinds of metadata to include, we discuss some of the potential benefits and risks of disclosing five kinds of metadata: metadata about the source of the underlying data; the cleaning and processing conducted; the marks, channels, and other design elements used; the people who directly created the visualization; and the people for whom the visualization was created. We conclude by proposing a few open research questions related to how to communicate metadata about visualizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making the Invisible Visible Led by: Alyxander Burns Making the Invisible Visible: Risks and Benefits of Disclosing Metadata in Visualization Talk Accompanying a data visualization with metadata may benefit readers by facilitating content understanding, strengthening trust, and providing accountability. However, providing this kind of information may also have negative, unintended consequences, such as biasing readers&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/2021\/12\/06\/making-the-invisible-visible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making the Invisible Visible<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-project-pages","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}