The Opportunity Cost: Using a Narrative Approach to Reframe Pro-equity Urban Informatics
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Abstract
This paper is an exploration of storytelling in an urban data dashboard. We follow two frameworks to describe the narrative elements (characters, spatial dimension, sequentiality & temporality, and tellability) of the dashboard. This narrative analysis allows us to characterize the narrative work that urban dashboards do, enabling the interpretation that produces meaning from data. Given the duality of data and data visualization and their primacy in both directing and critiquing racialized state power, this poster argues that understanding narrative is vital to determining how, when, and why particular kinds of data visualizations might serve authentic community-defined political goals and when they do not. We aim to start a line of inquiry into how analytic attention to narrative in data visualization can support political change through agonistic data practices.
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