The Aesthetics of Scientific Data Representation

Lotte Philipsen is an Associate Professor with the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University in Denmark and former Fellow with the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark. Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard is executive director of Science Club, Denmark, CEO of Graphicure, and former Fellow with the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies.

Introduction

Lotte Philipsen and Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard

1. Visualizing the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae

Ditte Høyer Engholm, David Goodsell, Mogens Kilian, Ebbe Sloth Andersen, Bjørn Panyella Pedersen and Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard

2. Diagrammatic and iconic imagery in science

Frederik Stjernfelt

3. Scientific data visualization: Aesthetic for diagrammatic clarity

Martin Krzywinski

4. Plant(ing) aesthetics between science and art

Lotte Philipsen

5. Visualizing the invisible universe

Steen Hannestad

6. The epistemics of data representation: How to transform data into knowledge

Nina Samuel

7. Sonification and audification as means of representing

Morten Søndergaard and Anette Vandsø

8. Scientific storytelling: Visualizing for public audiences
Djuke Veldhuis

9. Communicating science – aesthetic choices in publishing

Kelly Krause

10. Ideas in Action: Using Animation to Cut through Complexity

Janet Rafner and Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard

11. Making sense, nonsense, and no-sense when representing audio-visual collections

Theis Vallø Madsen

12. "Facts" – and representational acts

Morten Kyndrup