Tag: data physicalization

Square pieces of tree leaves organized by color.L
Victor Muñoz

Lessons from Physicalizing Data for a Better World

Autumn foliage colors inspired me to chart global temperature change. Here's how I created a data visual with leaves.
An Image showing the final result of the Data & Design Interactive Artwork developed during the workshop.A
Rutuja Pawar

Art in Numbers: Crafting Insights Through an Interactive Exhibit

Using principles of data humanism to turn a static spreadsheet about Alaskan trees into a tangible and interactive artwork.
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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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Claudia Berger & Chris Alen Sula

Crafting Connections: Lessons from Installing a Data Physicalization

The challenges and successes of making a physical data visualization, from initial conceptualization through installation.
Photograph of "Electricity generated or demanded in Manchester, 1951–1954." This type of visualization is known as a "load model", which represents power consumption in three dimensions. Each day is represented as a piece of cardboard, with the top edge of the cardboard cut away to form a column chart with the height of each column representing electricity demand over 30 minutes. The daily cards are stacked tightly together, so the tops create a 3-dimensional surface that indicates power usage over several years.T
Robert Simmon

The Power Behind Physical, 3-D Visualizations

How 3-D representations offer a quicker and deeper understanding of our world than symbols or abstractions in 2-D visualizations.
A photo of the wall straight-on, with a sign that says "The National COVID Memorial Wall."T
Duncan Bradley

Taking Time Is an Effective Way To Process Large Numbers

A striking memorial to the victims of COVID-19 in the UK reveals a neglected temporal dimension of data visualisation.
Assorted color fabric strips on a sewing table with grid and ruler.W
Teresa Hebron

Why Me? Or, How I Learned to Sew a Quilt from Ice Skating Stats

I was anxious about teaching a data viz workshop that involved data crafting. I pulled it off by transforming my favorite sport into a quilt.
A slightly more zoomed in photo of the wall with the strings. The strings create a type of Sankey diagram. The strings start on the far left, grouped as either student or staff, then proceed to the next column in the grid—year group they are representing—then travel to a third column with options for number of assessments, and finally end at the type of preferred assessment (coursework, exam or both.)T
Elisavet Andrikopoulou

Touching Data: Conducting a Survey With Paper and Thread

To collect data on how students preferred to be graded, a professor ran a physicalization exercise that collected and visualised the results.
A colorful book sits on a blue table next to a small plant. The book’s cover shows a visualization made of many different colors of paper showing distribution curves. About a third of the way down the cover is the title “Making with Data Physical Design and Craft in a Data-Driven World.”R
Jenn Schilling

Review: Making With Data, a Fascinating Dive Into The World of Physical Data Design

The book explores the world of tactile and hand-made data exhibits. It showcases inspiring physicalization projects and offers tips and tools to try your own.
old sepia toned photograph of a crowded Brill Street filled with people, a cart, and tall buildings on either sideF
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.
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..