Travis Noakes’s research while affiliated with University of Cape Town and other places

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Figure 15.1a. Visual data hedging through the use of a confidence interval. illustration by a. archer & t. noakes.
Figure 15.1c. another visual form of hedging with the maximum and minimum values labelled. illustration by a. archer & t. noakes.
Figure 15.1b. an alternate visual form of hedging with maximum y-axis. illustration by a. archer & t. noakes.
Figure 15.2. Maximum and minimum values indicated using separate line graphs. illustration by a. archer & t. noakes.
Figure 15.3. nyanga versus newlands. poster by e. van der Walt, 2017. reprinted with permission.

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Multimodal academic argument in data visualization
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April 2020

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Travis Noakes

Today we are witnessing an increased use of data visualization in society. Across domains such as work, education and the news, various forms of graphs, charts and maps are used to explain, convince and tell stories. In an era in which more and more data are produced and circulated digitally, and digital tools make visualization production increasingly accessible, it is important to study the conditions under which such visual texts are generated, disseminated and thought to be of societal benefit. This book is a contribution to the multi-disciplined and multi-faceted conversation concerning the forms, uses and roles of data visualization in society. Do data visualizations do 'good' or 'bad'? Do they promote understanding and engagement, or do they do ideological work, privileging certain views of the world over others? The contributions in the book engage with these core questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

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... This chapter demonstrates how a framework for argument in data visualisation (Archer & Noakes, 2020) was used to analyse students' texts and to inform design principles used to improve the second year journalism course. Some of the changes in the course based on these principles included introducing a process approach to the teaching of academic argument, developing meta-languages of critique, and focusing on the criteria for selection when doing a comparison (a key aspect of academic argument). ...

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Design principles for developing critique and academic argument in a blended-learning data visualisation course
Multimodal academic argument in data visualization

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Travis Noakes

... reconstruction and evaluation have been elaborated (Groarke 2020;Tseronis 2020;Macagno and Pinto 2021), while the critique of the theoretical or methodological categories needed in the study of multimodal argumentation continued (Champagne and Pietarinen 2020;Žagar 2021;Frápolli 2023). More importantly, the study of multimodal argumentation during the past decade was shaped by an intensifying dialogue between scholars from various communities interested in studying the same phenomena from complementary but different disciplinary perspectives, ranging from multimodal discourse analysis (Pflaeging and Stöckl 2021b), critical discourse studies (Serafis 2023), cognitive studies (Santibáñez 2018) to education and pedagogy (Pereira 2018;Archer and Noakes 2020), or even legal studies (Novak 2024), and political science (Mendonça et al. 2022;Lilleker and Veneti 2023). While most of the studies still focus on the dimension of production, recent publications have started to pay attention to the reception and circulation of multimodal arguments (Kiili et al. 2021;Kjeldsen and Hess 2021;Jones et al. 2022) as well as their mining and retrieval (Schreieder and Braker 2023). ...

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Multimodal rhetoric and argumentation: Applications – genres – methods
Multimodal academic argument in data visualization

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Travis Noakes