- Due January 27 by the start of class
- Find an analog way to record evidence of some aspect of your daily life
- No numbers or charts allowed!
- Upload a photo of your project to Canvas with a comment explaining what your data source was and how you collected it
Bring your finished project to class next weekI'll share my screen and we'll look at your projects together on Zoom next week- Watch Dear Data keynote presentation
Soon we'll be thinking about numbers, how to store and organize data, and ways we can use code to parse large datasets. But for our first project, we'll start more simple and experimental: your assignment is to identify something in your daily life and create a visual record of that activity. This can be something mundane, a part of your routine, something unusual that you do, etc. Don't worry about numerical data or making charts – in fact, I'm asking you not to think about numbers or make charts for this project! Instead, think about how you can keep track visually: evidence, marks, leftovers, etc. Think creatively and don't be afraid to experiment!
How might you record...
- Every time you brush your teeth?
- Every walk you take? Every step?
- Everything you eat?
- Think about timescale too: should you record every meal for a week, every bite in a single meal, or every chew-motion in a single bite?
When you're done, take a photo of your piece and upload it to Canvas. Write a comment (about one paragraph) that explains what you recorded and how you captured it.
Please also watch the keynote presentation on Dear Data by Stefanie Posavec and Georgia Lupi.
Above: visualizations of data about a week of laughter from Georgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data" project, where they exchanged postcards with hand-drawn visualizations for a year.
Images folder!
- Dear Data project by Georgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec – see the full set of visualizations here
- Feltron Annual Report by Nicholas Felton
- On Kawara's Today series, aka his "date paintings"
- Penelope Umbrico's Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (and all her other work too!)
- Wafa Bilal's 3rdi project
- Hasan Elahi's Tracking Transience
- Kati Hyyppä's Bicycle Seismograph
- Fidget by Kenneth Goldsmith (in this week's
Readings > Optionalfolder and here) - An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec (also in the
Readings > Optionalfolder)