can you add a legend for the colors?

not sure if this was inspired by the Tied in Knots project https://tiedinknots.io/#/

additionally, is there a design reason to obfuscate the responses on initial click?

i love this paragraph!

it would be very cool to see this as a GIF :)

I'm not sure you need the two charts side by side. the interaction along with the timeline works just fine without the recreated quilt on the right

and even though the standard timeline below the quilt is helpful, it makes it easier to read, defeating the purpose (for me). I would rather not see the timeline

depending on your audience, embodied ways of knowing as feminist may not be self-evident and so with this statement, it feels like you are leaving certain readers to take your word for it

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not a direct comment but a thought: I find this sentence very interesting! this is the god trick problem with current visualization design, because implicit in visualization, data are 'masked' by the marks and channels that represent them -- the data are implicitly immaterial without being given form through the designer via visualization design. in your example diagram, the visualization emphasizes the process of generating data, visualization, and insight -- so, how may other forms of visualization also demonstrate process? there is work in provenance recording and visualization, but these often start with the data and record manipulation.

it's not immediately apparent that you are on the diagram. also, would adding a legend be antithetical to the rhetorical purpose of the diagram?

in prior chapters we get a lot more information about the visualisation and since this is the first hand-drawn and static visual, it would be nice to know more about the diagram up front. who drew it? what type of visualisation is this? for those not familiar, is this a standard vis?

minor comment: but why only two?

minor comment: would be nice to see a chart title

there is a well-quoted line from Shneiderman that continues this logic:

There are many visual design guidelines but the basic principle might be summarized as the Visual Information Seeking Mantra: Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand

Shneiderman, Ben. "The eyes have it: A task by data type taxonomy for information visualizations." The craft of information visualization. Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. 364-371.

a skeptic might say here: "but how much of this epistemological claim is also driven by a material shift?"

D3 did not have to be made by using data to manipulate the DOM -- it would be helpful to see this point made more explicit in your argument!

links?

this paragraph also gave me pause (I haven't read pass this yet, so you might address my concerns in the next section) but there is a lot of vis research about decision making with visualizations that offer both a similar and different perspective on the intersection of visualization and decision making. Dimara & Stasko 2021 offers a good place to start on that discussion.

Dimara, Evanthia, and John Stasko. "A critical reflection on visualization research: Where do decision making tasks hide?." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 28.1 (2021): 1128-1138.

when it comes to the audience of the book, this is one of the statements that might strike a vis researcher as different. I don't mean to imply that it is unfounded, but rather, vis doesn't have the same history of unpacking context in this way to justify design decisions. i find this deeply interesting.

a follow-up comment, I wish the topic did not change so quickly from uncertainty to "for whom this knowledge is useful". I find myself wanting more to understand your argument.

it would be nice to see the old title and notes about scale through the scrollytelling story

minor comment: could the text for the toggle change? for example, show footnotes -> hide footnotes.

at the moment I have trouble knowing what state the toggle is in

it would be nice to have this highlighted as quote text or bold or alt titles for the chapters

is this a typo?

flagging in context to the previous comments that call for a deemphasis of Tufte in the historical narrative of visulization

this needs a little context

I like both the conceptual and practical takeaways and would personally have benefitted from seeing them before reading the chapter, or having them clearly stated in the text as a takeaway

Overall, the text is super interesting, but I had trouble following the winding narratives while also trying to apply it to other visualization practices. This is partially because the material is entangled and also the use of multiple visualizations and historical individuals that I am unfamiliar of. I also found myself wondering if this type of implosion would benefit from categories of implosion (this is currently outline in the conceptual takeaways) but I would love to see the vis object slowly broken into pieces labeled "Design decisions", "Design influences", "Context of the data collection"...but maybe I want more clarity, when the exact point is to avoid it?

I'm not sure I understand what I should take away from this footnote comment

This is so rich and informative and I would rather see this in the main text than a footnote.

it would be great to have a little cliff-hanger here that indicates you're going to discuss the how we do this at some point.

would be nice to have the year, title, and author repeated here

there is a tension between censoring the images of the slave ship and then textually describing them that feels unintentionally ableist. I'm not sure how you could resolve this though and I also don't have the lived experience to comment more extensively either.

small note: the button can be bigger

can this button remain persistent to give a reader the option to change the setting regardless of where they are in the text?

maybe consider reaching out to Frank Elavsky or Arvind about how to generate the alt text for the visualizations

https://vis.csail.mit.edu/pubs/vis-text-model/

I would soften this to say one of the best...

the format of the quote/indent caught me off-guard a little. I though you were quoting something at first

just warning you all it is mildly distracting that the grid is producing the Hermann Grid Illusion. Not super distracting though

a minor UI UX thought: I'm not sure it is immediately obvious that the shuffle button to the right is interactive

I'm not sure insight makes sense in this opening graph. The quote “the purpose of data visualization is insight” is really about reading the data, whereas the story your telling (at least in my interpretation) is one about putting critical theories of visualization to work. Or, rather, perhaps realising that it is easy to make a chart that looks objective and complete, even when you have all the intentions not to, because of conventions, tools, etc. etc.

Minor: this is blurry on my screen