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Data Visualization

Emiri Vithoontien

The Art of Data Visualisation

The graphical representation of information and data

(charts, graphs, and maps)

- Recognize patterns, trends, and outliers.

- Tells a story and communicates complicated data so

that people can understand

EmotoCaptured and visualised the global response around the London 2012 Olympic

Games on Twitter in an interactive online visualisation and physical data

sculpture.

http://www.emoto2012.org/

History of Data Visualisation

1. Cartography = The art and science

of making maps and charts.

- The first map was the

“Babylonian map”

https://www.ancient.eu/image/526/babylonian-map-of-the-world/

2. Development of real science- Galileo

Watched the sun for 40 days

Made drawings of the sunspots

Jer Thorp

- Software Artist

- A Leading voice for the

ethical use of big data.

https://www.jerthorp.com/herald-harbinger

https://www.pbs.org/video/book-art-data-visualizati

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Nathalie MiebachTranslates weather data into complex

sculptures and musical scores.

She started using data visualisation as

a form of art when she attended

astronomy classes at Harvard

University and studied basket

weaving.

For her final paper she turned in a sculptural translation of the

Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.

- Translated the relationship between star luminosity and

temperature into a thick, funnel-shapped scultpture.

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- Temperature and luminosity values of specific stars on the diagram inform the manner in which she weaves the reeds.

http://nathaliemiebach.com/floods.html

Casey Reas

Computational artist and co-developer of Processing

Uses code to create art.

He draws his inspiration directly from formal

abstraction and twentieth-century art.

http://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-and-architecture-collection/reas-c

asey/microimage-317.html?authID=364&ensembleID=1213

http://reas.com/

● http://nathaliemiebach.com/floods.html

● https://www.jerthorp.com/

● https://www.pbs.org/video/book-art-data-visualization/

● http://reas.com/

● http://www.emoto2012.org/

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