Reading Response 3
Which of Fry's four points (that existing data design paradigms do not account for extremely large data sets, changing data sets, interactive platforms, and accessibility by »
Reading Response 4
I find that one of the hardest things for websites to balance is being able to reach the correct page no matter where you start vs »
Week 5
March 21 Presentations Amily on Golan Levin Tim on lust.nl A Thousand Suns final crit L.A.T.C.H. exercise Assignment Proposals for 2 »
Uncharted
In the previous assignment we’ve seen how conventional plots and chart-types can be combined to convey information diagramatically. The various graphical building blocks you’ve »
Reading #5
Connecting with the Dots By Jacob Harris All of this has made me wonder what other approaches people have used to anchor their graphics in empathy. »
Week 6
April 4 Presentations Kate on Small Design Firm James on Stamen Uncharted project ideas Assignment Pick one direction for your Uncharted, finish collecting data for it, »
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http://www.antonygormley.com/sculpture/chronology-item-view/id/2158/page/425#p1 Antony Gormley's Allotment is an installation based on the minimum volume that could be occupied »
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News Knitter is a data visualization project which focuses on knitted garments as an alternative medium to visualize large scale data. The production of knitted garments »
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Andreas Nicolas Fischer http://anf.nu/fundament/ »
Unusual materials
http://www.visualnews.com/2015/08/14/gumballs-and-pencils-7-data-visualization-projects-made-with-unusual-objects/ »
Food
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/data-cuisine/#slide-1 »
R5 Comments
Does introducing empathy limit the amount of information you can communicate? What information helps viewers foster empathy for an individual? (If you can include only one »
Questions
Simple geometric shapes vs. symbolic icons for representing data: Is one better than the other for creating greater empathy for the viewers? Does the element of »
R5 READING QUESTIONS
1) The issue of empathy in data vis is interesting. However, a data set is an abstraction by default. A data set consists of numbers vs »
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1.How can you find the balance in abstracting and still being able to tell the information accurately and easily? 2. How can we make people »
Reading Response 5
People have limited empathy reserves, and a lot of things are competing for them. This overloading can cause people to ignore news items entirely. It's a »
r5 - empathy and data
To what extent are two-dimensional mediums an effective method to communicate data that requires an empathetic response? Are there ways to present concrete data in more »
Week 7
April 11 Presentations Kate on Small Design Firm Katie on Catalogtree Hannah on Ben Fry & Fathom Discussion of Connecting with the Dots Uncharted: individual or »
Reading #6
Subtleties of Color By Robert Simmon The use of color to display data is a solved problem, right? Just pick a palette from a drop-down menu »
r5
How do we humanize information? I think the basketball graph did a great job of adding an understanding to the information because it provided relatable information »