{"id":435,"date":"2010-01-14T19:22:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2012-06-03T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T11:38:11","slug":"data-soliloquies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/435","title":{"rendered":"Data Soliloquies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"doc_949998743356420\" name=\"doc_949998743356420\" height=\"500\" width=\"450\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" style=\"outline:none;\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=25259465&#038;access_key=key-r26ndk5hxzbzwgixgql&#038;page=1&#038;viewMode=list\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/data\">Data Soliloquies<\/a> is a book about the extraordinary cultural fluidity of scientific data. A wide array of graphs, charts, computer models and other forms of visual advocacy have become inescapable fixtures of public science presentations, though they are often treated as if they were neutral \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfound objects\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rather than elaborate narrative constructions containing high levels of statistical uncertainty. Through a mix of essays and artworks, this witty and engaging book \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the result of a collaboration between Richard Hamblyn and Martin John Callanan during their terms as writer and artist in residence at the UCL Environment Institute \u00e2\u20ac\u201d examines the theatricality of scientific data display, while critiquing some of the poorly designed statistical wallpaper that surrounds so much public science debate.<\/p>\n<p>ISBN 9780903305044 (January 2010)<\/p>\n<p>Available for <a href=\"http:\/\/ucl.ac.uk\/slade\/press\/\">order on Sladepress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviews<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.furtherfield.org\/displayreview.php?review_id=377\">Furtherfield<\/a>, Pau Waelder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data Soliloquies is a book about the extraordinary cultural fluidity of scientific data. A wide array of graphs, charts, computer models and other forms of visual advocacy have become inescapable fixtures of public science presentations, though they are often treated as if they were neutral \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfound objects\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rather than elaborate narrative constructions containing high levels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,50,49,44],"tags":[515,516,512,78,65,517,509,513,511,514,507,395,506,505,508,504,510,518],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-output","category-a-planetary-order","category-artist-in-residence","category-text-trends","tag-advocacy","tag-array","tag-artist-in-residence-2","tag-artworks","tag-callanan","tag-collaboration","tag-computer-models","tag-constructions","tag-fluidity","tag-graphs","tag-public-science","tag-richard-hamblyn","tag-science-debate","tag-science-presentations","tag-soliloquies","tag-statistical-uncertainty","tag-theatricality","tag-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}