Dear Data
By Class Project: Communication Systems - Data Visualization
May 11, 2023
A class's journey in abstract and personal data visualization
The Data Visualization workshop conveyed the personal dimension of data and its representation through a weekly exercise of logging and visualizing individual experiences. The activity was inspired by information designers Stefanie Posavec’s and Giorgia Lupi’s book “Dear Data” where the visualizations were mailed as postcards to each other each week. Students were tasked with collecting and managing their own data earlier in the week and using materials in class to visualize and reflect on the information. While data collection in some weeks seemed more granular like counting how often they hear/say “Thank You” each day, other weeks exposed the difficulty of simultaneously feeling and documenting one’s experience, such as the squishy sense of indecision. The visualizations themselves explore a range of data representation mediums from hand-drawn sketches and collages to embroidery and play-doh, to elevate the value of abstract and alternative data representations for data that can often be indescribable.
Project Details
- Class: Communication Systems - Data Visualization
- Instructor: Zach Pino
Aman Bhardwaj
MDes + MBA 2023
Anahita Dasgupta
MDes 2023
Ayaka Uriu
MDes 2023
Brayan Pabon Gomez
MDes 2023
Elizabeth Graff
MDes + MPPA 2023
Emery Donovan
MDes 2023
Jerick Evans
MDes + MBA 2023
Katherine Gowland
MDes + MBA 2023
Keval Parekh
MDes 2023
Lila Conlee
MDes + MPPA 2023
Luce James
MDes 2023
Nishanth Srikanth
MDes + MBA 2023
Rohan Sampat
MDes 2024
Roxanne Hoffman
MDes + MBA 2022
Sunaina Kuhn
MDes 2022