Tag: Data Art

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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..
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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..
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Kristin Briney

Crafting a COVID Visualization: How I Processed Pandemic Anxiety and Grief with Yarn

I spent December 2020 recovering from COVID. I got sick via an outbreak at my children’s daycare during the third U.S. COVID wave that overwhelmed..
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Danièle Gibney

Crossing into Datavis

For the past year or so, I’ve been using cross stitch as a medium to develop my interest in data visualisation. Here’s a run-down of..
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Liubov Popovets

Analytics of Avant-Garde: How Soviet Artists Designed Data

Internet research teaches us that people don’t read a text, but scan it. Fonts, pictures, and charts are used to highlight important ideas. A hundred..
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Liz Bravo

Data and Technique: Reflections on Visualizing by Hand

Lee este artículo en español aquí. Before people began creating data visualizations with Tableau, Illustrator, R, and all the software that makes it easy for..
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Liz Bravo

Datos y Técnica: Reflexiones sobre Visualizar los Datos a Mano

Read this article in English here. Antes de hacer Visualización de datos con Tableau, Illustrator, R y todos los softwares que nos facilitan hacer Dataviz,..
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Carni Klirs

Data-Driven Album Covers

While there have been several great album covers that feature Data Visualization (Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures is based on a scientific diagram of Pulsars and..
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Martina Zunica

SPOTLIGHT: 100 Bridgerton Colors

This project started from my interest in extracting color palettes from scenes of everyday life—I like to take pictures of what is all around me..
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Alena Lorea

SPOTLIGHT: Europe against Racism – in Memoriam to George Floyd

The brutal killing of George Floyd made me rethink many things. Racism is a global problem, but this incident reached a tipping point that drove..
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Fe Simeoni

Acnephobic: Faces for a Feminist Data Practice

Data visualizations use symbols as a tool to represent a subject. They interpret, simplify, and synthesize – often in a manner detached from the physical..
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Mary Aviles

100,000 Folds: The Stabilizing Power of Community

Even before the pandemic, social capital in America had been declining, which some have attributed to our increasingly diverse society. People need places to meet, outside of..