Designing with data

A lightning talk focused on showing the breadth of information visualization and data art projects to achieve a variety of goals, like building curiosity, understanding complexity, seeing what can’t be seen etc.

Updated deck for Webinar with Gramener+RRD.
First presented at DesignUp (2017), Bangalore.

(PS: No GIFs in PDF, sorry!)

Transcript

1. Designing with data Rasagy Sharma (@rasagy) Designer, Mapbox
3. Designing with data for what?
4. Designing with data for making objective design decisions! Data-driven design, data-informed design…
5. Designing with data to exhibit, explain, explore & experience! Information visualization, data art…
6. Exhibit List Table Spreadsheet … Seeing raw data Explain Bar chart Line graph Scatterplot … Answering questions Explore Treemap Interactivity EDA … Finding what to ask iteratively Experience Installations Synaesthetic Art Generative design … Finding meaning in data
7. What is art? What is design?
8. What is art? What is design? Art for art’s sake. Design for the user’s sake.” — Folks at @Miranj “
9. What is art? What is design? She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” — Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park) “
10. What is art? What is design? Chair at my office Eames Lounge Chair and ottoman Katerina Kamprani’s Uncomfortably-designed Objects Design (function) Art (emotions)
11. “Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.” – Peter Diamandis https://www.socialmediatoday.com/technology-data/how-much-data-generated-every- minute-infographic
12. Designing with data to exhibit, explain, explore & experience!
13. Designing with data for seeing patterns across time
14. Designing with data for seeing patterns across time Temperature anomalies https://www.flickr.com/phot os/150411108@N06/3547191 0724/
15. Designing with data for seeing patterns across time OSM Analysis dashboard https://mapbox.github.io/os m-analysis-dashboard
16. Designing with data for making sense of the world around us
17. Designing with data for civic issues & decision making A nation divided, by Zeit http://www.zeit.de/feature/ german-unification-a- nation-divided
18. Designing with data for civic issues & decision making Crash visualization for Washington DC https://blog.mapbox.com/o pen-cities-are-smarter- safer-cities-fd1c66099618
19. Designing with data for understanding complexity
20. Designing with data for understanding complexity Hive plots http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/linnet/
21. Designing with data for understanding complexity OSMCha https://osmcha.mapbox.com/
22. Designing with data for curiosity
23. Designing with data for curiosity
24. Designing with data for curiosity 4010 Facebook Tree by Onformative http://onformative.com/wor k/4010-facebook-tree
25. Designing with data for curiosity 4010 Facebook Tree by Onformative http://onformative.com/wor k/4010-facebook-tree
26. Designing with data for curiosity Visualising painters’ lives by Giorgia Lupi (Accurat) https://www.brainpickings.o rg/2013/06/07/painters- lives-accurat-giorgia-lupi/
27. Designing with data for curiosity Visualising painters’ lives by Giorgia Lupi (Accurat) https://www.brainpickings.o rg/2013/06/07/painters- lives-accurat-giorgia-lupi/
28. Designing with data for seeing what we can’t see
29. Designing with data for seeing what we can’t see Poetry on the Road (2006) by Boris Müller http://www.esono.com/bori s/projects/poetry06/
30. Designing with data for seeing what we can’t see Visualizing 500 days of Summer http://rasagy.in/500days/
31. Designing with data for seeing what we can’t see Visualizing 500 days of Summer http://rasagy.in/500days/
32. Designing with data for representing yourself
33. Designing with data for representing yourself Dear data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec http://www.dear-data.com/
34. Designing with data for representing yourself Dear data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec http://www.dear-data.com/
35. Designing with data for representing yourself Feltron Annual Reports http://feltron.com/
36. Designing with data for creating personal artifacts
37. Designing with data for creating personal artifacts Meshu https://meshu.io/
38. Designing with data for creating personal artifacts Gemnam & Circonam http://agenerativeworld. tumblr.com
39. Designing with data for making familiar unfamiliar
40. Designing with data for making familiar unfamiliar Carbon map http://www.worldmapper.or g/display.php?selected=15#
41. Designing with data for making familiar unfamiliar Visualizing trains from Indian Metros http://rasagy.in/Visualizing Trains/
42. There’s a lot more to be designed!
43. Visualization taxonomy Information is Beautiful by David McCandless (2001) Semiology of Graphics by Jacques Bertin (1967)
44. “Data is the new oil.” — Clive Humby
45. “Data is the new oil.” — Clive Humby “Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium.” — David Mccandless
46. Thank you! Rasagy Sharma (@rasagy)