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From the previous reading responses, I could not agree more with the person who authored “Reading Response 11/6.” I also had a fairly narrow idea of where feminist theory could be applied, especially in a data setting.  Feminist theory seems equipped to deal with many issues in the data field and data visualizations sub-field.

Speaking of data visualizations, the graphics used by Mullen in “Lynching, Visualization, and Visibility” aided in the argument Mullen put forward.   The data visualizations helped bring the invisible, the records of the lynchings, to being visible using graphs and geographical representations of where they were most prevalent.  I also liked how Mullen acknowledged that the article is not to offer an analysis of the data, but simply to show how the visualizations can show patterns.  There are certainly limitations of this.  It relies on complete and accurate data.  This is as much of an issue for the data on lynching as it is for police violence.  However, I still think the article achieves its goal of making the invisible, visiible