{"id":3468,"date":"2025-03-19T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2025-07-18T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:00:40","slug":"lab-10-material-data-visualization-3-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/2025\/03\/19\/lab-10-material-data-visualization-3-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab 10: Material Data Visualization (3\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we&#8217;re looking at creative ways of representing data. Although algorithmically generated data visualizations can of course incorporate creative elements through choices like color palette, background, and surrounding context, they&#8217;re also limited to specific, familiar forms: a pie chart, a network graph, a scatterplot. Creative data visualization allows us to play with new forms of visualization, and in so doing, move from data viz as exploration to data viz as argument or as narrative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s lab is based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dear-data.com\/theproject\">Dear Data project<\/a>, in which two friends visualized data about themselves every week for a year. They each responded to a shared theme or prompt each week, but they did so individually, categorizing and visualizing their data in often radically different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re going to visualize some of our own data. For the next 24 hours, track a piece of data about yourself. That data can be anything: how you spend your time throughout the day, what contexts you hang out with your friends, how often you call your family, or even just your steps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve got a set of data, try your hand at a creative data visualization. Think about what forms might make the most sense for your data &#8212; if it&#8217;s time-based, maybe you want to overlay a pie chart on a clock. Maybe you want to draw your step count on a map. Think also about what you find visually appealing and engaging. You&#8217;re not bound by the aesthetic of a particular tool! Bring it with you or take a picture to share in class on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re looking at creative ways of representing data. Although algorithmically generated data visualizations can of course incorporate creative elements through choices like color palette, background, and surrounding context, they&#8217;re also limited to specific, familiar forms: a pie chart, a network graph, a scatterplot. Creative data visualization allows us to play with new forms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}