For many outside of the scientific community, big data and the forms it takes, such as statistical lists, spreadsheets and graphs, often seem abstract and unintelligible. This book investigates how digital fabrication and traditional making approaches are being used to present data in newly engaging and interesting ways.
The first part of the book introduces the basic premise of the data object and the concept of making digital data into a physical form. Contributors cover topics such as biometrics, new technology, the economics of data and open and community uses of data. The second part presents a selection of exemplar forms and contexts for the application of data-objects, such as smart surfaces, smart cities, augmented reality techniques and next generation technical interfaces that blend physical and digital elements.
Making Data delivers the importance and likely future prevalence of physical representations of data. It explores the creative methods, processes, theories and cultural histories of making physical representations of information and proposes that the making of data into physical objects is the next important development in the data visualisation phenomenon.
Author(s): Guilt, Ian (Editor)
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: Making Data Materializing Digital Information
Pages: 281
Tags: Making Data Materializing Digital Information
Cover
Contents
List of figures
List of contributing authors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction Ian Gwilt
Section One Making data: Theories
1 Data-objects: Thinking with your hands Adrien Segal
2 Shifting data between the material and the virtual is not an immaterial matter Dew Harrison
3 Data as environment: Physicalization strategies for communicating environmental data Laura Perovich and Dietmar Offenhuber
4 Designing explanations of data-based interactions in socio-technical systems Aaron Fry
5 Moving data: Visualizing human and non-human movement artistically Michele Barker and Anna Munster
Section Two Making data: Practices
6 Uncanny landscapes: Tactile and experiential encounters with ecological data Zoë Sadokierski, Monica Monin and Andrew Burrell
7 Exploring digital-material hybridity in the post-digital museum Daniela Petrelli and Nick Dulake
8 Socio-material translations of data and value(s) Bettina Nissen
9 Personal data manifestation: A tangible poetics of data Giles Lane and George Roussos
10 Data and emotion: The climate change object Karin von Ompteda
Section Three Making data: Techniques
11 Hybrid data constructs: Interacting with biomedical data in augmented spaces Daniel F. Keefe, Bridger Herman, Jung Who Nam, Daniel Orban and Seth Johnson
12 Sonic data physicalization Stephen Barrass
13 Making with climate data: Materiality, metaphor and engagement Mitchell Whitelaw and Geoff Hinchcliffe
14 Waterfalls as a form of AI-based feedback for creativity support Georgi V. Georgiev and Yazan Barhoush
15 Data as action: Constructing dynamic data physicalizations Jason Alexander
Section Four Making data: Trajectories
16 Making data: The next generation Ian Gwilt and Aaron Davis
Index
