Tag: Data Art

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Daphne Lundi

Exploring Open Source Data to Visualize 99-Cents Stores

I used a business database from my public library, free data visualization tools, and art supplies to create a 3D map of 99-cents stores.
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Kelsey Nanan

A Decade Wrapped – Plotting Nostalgia for a Data Viz Gift

Need a great gift idea? Try making a personalized data viz for that special someone.
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Adrianna Janik

Visualizing Emotions with Color Cubes

Using two different data sets, I leveraged color and 3-D structure to visualize the complexity and breadth of human emotion.
Creating a visual representation of my first 12 nights, drawing inspiration from Piet Mondrian's art style.<
Or Misgav

Finding Solace in Tracking My First Trimester Nights

Through sleepless nights and overwhelming fatigue, I used data and art to discover my strength—and the beauty of resilience.
Data visualisation self-portrait. An abstract painting created by Thabata from Data Rocks, using graphite, ink and watercolours.I
Thabata Romanowski

Is It Data? Is It Art? It’s a Data Self-Portrait!

To step away from the constraints of her day job, a data vis practitioner made an introspective art piece with tools she hadn't used before.
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Aida Horaniet Ibañez, Daniel Richter & Joëlla van Donkersgoed

From The Historical Archive To The Citizens: Visualizing Census Data From Brill Street in 1922

Inspired by historical census data from a former industrial city in Luxembourg, three researchers ventured into a project to turn population records into a tactile, 3-dimensional, and interactive exhibit.
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Letícia Pozza

A Camera That Prints the Futures We Envision – with a Bit of Help from an AI

One of the first things that made me fall in love with my husband was that in the early days of our nine-year relationship, he..
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Emma Tait

No Straight Lines: My Process Is Messy and Full of Failures and That’s Okay

The DVS Mentorship Program revolutionized my creative process: learning is iterative, failure is vital, growth comes in many forms, and straight lines are overrated.  No..
A data visualisation showing the flights and fates of the Soviet Space Dogs. Each dog is represented by a circle. Circle size shows the number of flights they undertook and circle colour indicates whether they survived, while a coloured tail shows the gender of the dog. Flights are represented by triangles along a timeline at the bottom. Triangle height shows the flight altitude and triangle colour shows the rocket type used. Dogs are connected by lines to the flights that they flew on.D
Phoenix

Discovering Data Visualisation: How I Discovered and Fell in Love with Data Visualisation Art

I stumbled upon data visualisation art quite by accident early in 2022, at a time when I was at an interesting crossroads in my life...
Overhead shot showing two watch faces situated to the left and right of the middle of a sheet of paper. Around both faces run three circles of five types of watch parts corresponding to different activities. Handwritten annotations help to discern the meaning of each part, highlighting differences between the authors’ days, like how “unpaid work” for Tomi means getting up at night for his children, while for Julcsi it’s studying Japanese and for Pisti it’s cooking.W
Júlia Borsi, Tamás Varga & István Korompai

What’s a “Handmade Data Object” Anyway?

This is an unusual viz — for a variety of reasons — so here’s a quick guide to reading it: the two dials represent twelve..
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Jason Forrest, Jill A. Brown, Nate Coursey, Tristan Guillevin, Jeff Harrison & Eli Holder

“In the end, all data visualization ends up with a conversation” — A Joint Review of Eyeo 2022

The Eyeo festival has always held an interesting place in the community as, I’m told, it never really focused on any specific subject matter. At..
Two square artworks next to each other, each showing a circle made of rhythmic lines on a blank background, one with a white circle on dark background and the other with a dark circle on white backgroundE
Tiziana Alocci

Exploring Necessity, a Personal Data Art Project, by Tiziana Alocci

Tiziana Alocci, an award-winning information designer and lecturer based in London, recently launched a new data art series, Necessity. To learn more about the project,..
Cover image of young Tommy Westphall in front of tv static and the latest major evolution in the visualization of the Tommy Westphall Universe.T
William Careri

The Visual Evolution of the Tommy Westphall Universe

Television series finales often offer their long-time viewers heartfelt moments, character arc completions, plot line conclusions, tears, laughs and more. Unlike any other series finale,..
On left is a textile with a typewritten phrase from the Book of Common Prayer: "FROM PESTILENCE FAMINE BATTLE MURDER AND FROM SUDDEN DEATH GOOD LORD FROM LIGHTNING AND TEMPEST, FROM PLAGUE DELIVER US." The phrase is overtyped 549 times on the textile surface and eventually obscures itself. On the right is the same textile, after washing.T
India Johnson

The Soul of Data: Data Physicalizations on Fabric

When my area went into lockdown in March of 2020, initial case counts were relatively low in my state, even as the coasts were plunged into..
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Amanda Makulec

The Information is Beautiful Awards are Back!

During our State of the Industry panel at Outlier, we welcomed a video address from a special guest: David McCandless. Founder of the Information is..
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Nicholas Rougeux

Encyclopedic Data Art

The digital edition of Iconographic Encyclopædia was a year-long project to breathe new life into an antique. In recent years, I’ve undertaken several of these..