My first introduction to data visualization was a project called Dear Data. Created by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec, the two award-winning designers collected data about their lives every week, created a visualization on a postcard, and sent it to each other for a year. From every time they looked at a clock to what doors they walked through. In the end, they had a wonderful collection of beautiful visualizations of the data they accumulated.
The two pieces below feature projects using data visualization. The first one is my own Dear Data project, and the second is a research project into hurricanes and climate change.
This inspired me to create some of my own visualizations. I created three different visualizations of some data sets that I collected over the course of a few weeks.
I collected data from my bookshelf, favorite video game, and iPad usage and used index cards, markers, colored pencils, and pens to create my visualizations.
The reflection focuses on what I learned from Dear Data, software vs. manual visuals, and the importance of telling a story with data.
Ever since I was a little girl, I have always been fascinated with extreme weather. After reading A Furious Sky by Eric Jay Dolin, I was inspired to look into the link between hurricanes and climate change.
I used this opportunity to research data on hurricanes, climate change, and the economic impact on communities all around the world.
I took those data sets and imputed my own data into a program called DataWrapper. From there, I was able to create multiple visualizations representing a wide variety of information.
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