research

This project is to produce a concept based on the theme "Data gathering & display (digital Nature)" and create a design prototype. This prototype has then got to be applied to either Wikimedia commons or Arduino mini project. This page is to document all the related research and design practice.

When collecting data there is fundamental elements to remember.
this is mainly what type of data you are considering to collect.
There are two main types

qualitative & quantitative data.

-means the quality's of something e.g ,colour,texture,feel & experience

-Refers to numbers e.g size,price,score

There are further categories regarding quantitative data

- A rounded up number e.g 7/10, show size

- specific number e.g 5.37431

Discrete

Continuous

when considering the data you want to collect a good starting point is a asking a simple question like
"how many cars pass my house?" or " how many house are down my street?"

From the School of data they believe there is 6 steps from collecting data to visualizing.

-Finding data
-Wrangle data
-Merge data set
-Filter data
-Analyze data
-Visualize

With quantitative data you can organize and filter through spreadsheets like excel

When its time to Visualize there is appropriate diagrams for different types of displays such as comparisons ,value or interaction.

Comparing data = bar chart

Value over time = line chart

Interaction between two or more values = scatter plot

Geography related data = map with colour

|| Artist Research ||

Lev Manovich was born in Moscow Russia in 1960.He studied fine art,architecture and computer programming. Manovich has been working with computer media as an artist, computer animator, designer, and programmer since 1984. He's produced books such as Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001). amongst these successful books hes produced many visual information graphics relating to instagram photos.

Instagram pictures uploads from Tapipei and New York on two cooperative screens.Updated constantly as people form both country uploads their pictures. The display alternates between showing the actual photos and their abstraction - color squares representing images using their average hue. The switch between the images and hue shows the different color palettes and contrasts between the two.

- i love this idea if using thousands of images to show intelligence of the very different countries
- There is also the idea of using other people data to form a collaborative piece of work.

With the help of Dominikus Baur, Jay Chow, Daniel Goddemeyer, Nadav Hochman, Moritz Stefaner, Alise Tifentale, and Mehrdad Yazdani. An interactive web app that transfers 3200 instagram selfies into visualizations of data. Data such as if the face is to left or right or even the proportion the mouth is open. with this data set a production of visual data s produced.

- i like the use of taking a simple image or a small bit of information and exposing all the data possible.
-i also love info graphics thats can be produced.

I Find Manovich work very inspiring and influential. i really like idea of taking other people detail and finding the hidden detail and expanding it to the limits. i also love the info graphics style to visualize the findings.

David McCandless is a British data journalism who has created the book "information is beautiful". mos of his work is merges data, concepts, visual design and story-telling. Hes had exhibition at places like Welcome Trust gallery in London, and at the Tate Britain.
His book is one of the first books that got me into graphic design.

The book "information is beautiful" host all of his iconographic and visual data. most of his work is very simple displayed with no complicating keys or graphs but mainly uses color and simple shapes and are easy to understand and very visually pleasing.

As shown in this small collection of Davids work you can see instantly the simplicity and bright colors that he uses.
(left to right)
This first image show what "in" colours where in during summer and autumn thought a period of time.The second images shows what calories are in certain foods, this is simply done bu a small icon and a number underneaths. this is a really quick and easy way to show information.Continuing with consumerism my most favorite design is what is in certain drinks.visual data like this can teach you something instantly and be fun. i believe this is the main aim when visualize. For readers to understand straight away what it is and pick up the important information with out struggle.This design requires no keys or explanation.properly one of Davids most typographic designs is a government based design. As this has multiple data and information hes visualized into sections and combined it into a visual

Great for visual research

|| Visual data i've found out and about ||

23 and me advert
23andme.co.uk

One day i was watching tv and this advert came on. i instantly loved the infor graphics they used to represent an individuals DNA. The bright colours and arrangement gives you an idea of specific data being represented. I really think the adverts used a cleaver way of visualization and it has definitely given me some ideas

Disposable paper table mat i found in a restaurant

I went to brugge with my family over the Christmas break,we went to a small restaurant where these table mats where placed on each table. Although i don't speck Flemish i found out that KBC was a bank. i loved this visual data,although it was very random to to restaurant i loved this visual piece. very simple with bright colours, each section had its own proportion to show more or less of each element. This gave me a good ideas to run with.