Kieran Healy

A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world. We now live in an "ordinal society." Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardised units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy argue that technologies of information management, fuelled by the abundance of personal data and the infrastructure of the internet,...

An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from data. This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data visualization in an honest...