ABSTRACT
Researching data visualization as a lived experience provides a perspective from which to explore its social life. Borrowing elements from feminist autobiographical research and critical making, this chapter uses the personal story of the design and circulation of a hand-drawn, small-data visualization depicting the author’s experience of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. By critically reflecting on the visualization’s design and circulation, this chapter engages with wider academic debates about data visualizations’ subjectivities. Furthermore, by interrogating notions of authenticity and honesty associated with hand drawing, it introduces the idea of a politics of hand-drawn visual representations of data.
