A Critical Reflection on the Values and Assumptions in Data Visualization (opens in new tab)

arXiv:2602.22051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visualization has matured into an established research field, producing widely adopted tools, design frameworks, and empirical foundations. As the field has grown, ideas from outside computer science have increasingly entered visualization discourse, questioning the fundamental values and assumptions on which visualization research stands. In this short position paper, we examine a set of values that we see underlying the seminal works of Jacqu...