ABSTRACT
The web-based survey and visualization platform was just one of several visualizing platforms that the laboratory was working on. With the computerization of data and visualizations, the work with code weaves together many formerly distinct roles. This workflow wraps together the practices of: sourcing data to be visualized; programming to transform and render data visually; visualizing as a supposed final stage. Codework, as an emergent and distinct form of practice in scientific research involving visualization, also blends several sets of binary categories often deployed in visual studies: private/public, visible/invisible, material/immaterial. The visualizations were a spin-off or side project of one of the PhD researchers. Many online services, such as Twitter, provide data through an application programming interface (API). In addition to the growing online datasets stored primarily as comma-separated values (CSV) files, many government agencies now provide their stored data in accessible digital repositories.
