Nathaniel Tkacz - Being with Data

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2 Dedication Dedication For Lena

3 Title Page Being with Data The Dashboarding of Everyday Life Nathaniel Tkacz polity

4 Copyright Copyright © Nathaniel Tkacz 2022 The right of Nathaniel Tkacz to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2022 by Polity Press Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4533-9 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Control Number: 2021949634 The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

5 Acknowledgements

6 IntroductionBeing with Data Dashboard Format Culture Overview Notes

7 1. Archaeology of DashboardsFormat Archaeology Horse and Carriage: Separation, Motion, Perception Motor Car: Expertise, Instrumentation, Mythology Driving: Driverly Perception, Automaticity Company Reports: Driving Organizations, Timely Data Management Decision: Active Display, Decision Ontology Business Intelligence: Generalization Recap Notes

8 2. Formatting Cognition Cognitive Matters Dashboarding Hospitals Cognitive Associations Calculate and Visualize Seeing through Hospital Dashboards Dashboarding Cognition, Formatting Thought Notes

9 3. Formatting Data Data, Epistemology, Truth-Value Dashboarding Disasters Making Decisions, Issuing Reports Uncertainty, Time-Value, Decision-Value Situations and Situationness Notes

10 Coda: Format Politics Notes

11 Bibliography

12 Index

13 End User License Agreement

1 Introduction Figure 0.0Garmin Vivoactive 3 running interface Figure 0.1Screenshot of Qlik dashboard Figure 0.2Photo of Qlik dashboard Figure 0.3Screenshot of image search query results for *dashboard*

2 Chapter 1 Figure 1.0Discursive spaces Figure 1.1Coupé horse-drawn coach, Brewster & Company, New York, c. 1860 Figure 1.2Benz Patent Motorwagen Figure 1.3Daimler Motor Carriage Figure 1.4Émile Levassor driving early model Panhard et Levassor, c. 1891 Figure 1.51895 model Panhard et Levassor Figure 1.61898 Daimler Phaeton dashboard Figure 1.71920s Model T Ford interior Figure 1.81925 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Jonckheere Coupe interior Figure 1.91954 Triumph TR2 dashboard and front interior Figure 1.10Citroën DS on display at the Paris Motor Show, 1955 Figure 1.11Citroën DS interior, 1955 Figure 1.12Components of a management decision system Figure 1.13Display system for the management decision system Figure 1.14Sample output from the management decision system Figure 1.15Tiers of management decision

3 Chapter 2 Figure 2.0Dr Foster website landing page Figure 2.1Symbolic tables and bit-stuffed pointers Figure 2.2Data table Figure 2.3Anscombe’s Quartet in Qlik training manual Figure 2.4Overview of Qlik visualizations

4 Chapter 3 Figure 3.0The Cemaden situation room Figure 3.1DIKW pyramid Figure 3.2Numbered sketch of the Telão Figure 3.3Cemaden situation room with workstation displays visible Figure 3.4Diary sketch of hydrologist’s display Figure 3.5SIADEN warning report interface Figure 3.6Cemaden warning report output (PDF)

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2 Table of Contents

3 Dedication

4 Title Page

5 Copyright

6 Acknowledgements

7 Introduction

8 Begin Reading

9 Coda: Format Politics

10 Bibliography

11 Index

12 End User License Agreement

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