#dataphysicalization

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60

by Taylor Rodriguez and Mina Rafiee

60 is a physical data visualization that illustrates the extreme rate at which data is being exchanged on the internet.  It features  a series of sand timers, each of which represents a different internet platform and the sand within them is equal to the volume of activity that occurs on that platform in one minute. The data is used is  based on study conducted by Excelecom, a technology and data management consultancy.

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Chaos out of Order

by Karen Chan

Dataviz working on hypothesis about the importance of Chinese calligraphy in the West versus in the East.

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United States of Mind

by Taylor Rodriguez

An interactive data visualization that illustrates the increase in heroin related deaths in the united states in the last decade.

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Abortion Access Dart Board

by Ava Burke and Soomi Lee

In their words: "In response to this hostile climate of abortion access, we designed a game of darts that uses the spatial area of state-specific dartboards and the player’s relative distance from the board to elucidate the breadth and depth of abortion restrictions by state. The gameplay experience is meant to physically model the relative difficulty of attempting to get an abortion in a “supportive,” “neutral,” or “hostile” state. We aggregated data from a variety of sources, including the Guttmacher Institute’s database, Remapping Debate, and ThinkProgress, in order to come up with a core set of metrics that guided the design of each state’s dartboard and rule set. While this project will eventually include a different dartboard for every state, we began by focusing on three states to serve as case studies: New York (a relatively “easy” state); Texas (the focus of a pending Supreme Court decision in which the reproductive rights of 5.4 million women hang in the balance); and Louisiana (the state with the most stringent abortion restrictions). The game itself is meant to be fun (and a good way to take out one’s aggression about the abridging of women’s reproductive rights!) but also didactic and thought-provoking. We want players to come away from the experience both with a deeper understanding of how abortion restrictions function state by state, and with a renewed questioning of whether abortion can even still be considered “legal” when it is so heavily restricted."

http://avaburke.me/#/abortion-dart-board

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Phone Usage

by Peiying Feng and Jessie Contour

A data vis sculpture comparing phone usage of the authors for two weeks. In Cathy's words: "Mine is on the left with the volume buttons, Jessie's is the right with the power button. All I can say is that she picks up her phone a lot a lot! But I'm definitely not one to talk, since I spend waaaaay more time on my phone than she does. (I was reading the Brilliance Trilogy by Marcus Sakey on my phone the past two weeks!)"

[futurecitieslab]

New blog post about #BitStream up on our website! (future-cities-lab.net/blog/2015/9/15/bitstream-media-wall-new-york) @Bitly #NewYorkCity #datavisualization #dataphysicalization #digitalfabrication #FutureCitiesLab