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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