Rethinking 'big data' as visual knowledge: The sublime and the diagrammatic in data visualisation

Visual Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 155-164

  McCosker, Anthony ^a   Wilken, Rowan ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

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EID: 84898762442     PISSN: 1472586X     EISSN: 14725878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2014.887268     Document Type: Article

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