Gallery: These Hand-Drawn Postcards Are a Data-Viz Dream
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Dear Data is a new data visualization project from Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec where they create illustrations out of the data of their personal lives. Here you see Posavec's complaints split into type to to whome she complained.
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Lupi visualized her complaints as musical scores, with each separate score signifying the type of complaint and the notes illustrating the individual complaints.
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A week of phone addiction split into days. Colors represent the different reasons for using the phone.
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Lupi visualized her phone addiction as circles, with each circle representing the place or situation where she checked her phone and the lines/colors representing the reason why she interacted with it.
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Lupi illustrated the number of times she looked in the mirror during the week. The colors represent where the mirror was, the length of the drop indicates how intentional the glance was and the dots explain what she thought while doing it.
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Posavec's mirror week is represented by a grid. The circles indicate a glance, the x axis shows what time, the y axis shows what day.
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The red shows a data void. Says Posavec: "Data Void due to me going clubbing and getting to drunk to remember to track....pretty sure I looked in mirrors but who really knows?"
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A week of "thank yous" with the branches representing the different people she said thank you to. The symbols show what kind of thank you (irl, digital, sincere, in spanish).
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Posavec's thank yous with each day represented by a horizontal line. The patterns of the triangle indicate closeness of relationship.
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Lupi's visualization of how many times she looked at the clock relied on symbols. The symbols are grouped by hour of the day.
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Posavec's data on how many times she looked at clock over the week. Each line represents an hour and the symbol indicates what kind of clock.
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A week of physical touch. The three alignments show if someone touched Lupi, if she touched them or if it was mutual. Colors indicate who touched her and symbols show where she was touched.
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Posavec's week of touching is split up by person. You can safely assume the cluster of touch in the middle is her husband.
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A week of transportation. The lines represent a path from one place to another. The symbols represent the mode of transportation. If you look closely, you'll notice Luip walks over a bridge on her way to work each day.
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Posavec's transportation viz is less detailed, marked by circles that represent places other than home.
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All the stuff Luip bought in one week. The branches represent a category of thing bought.
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Posavec's "things bought" viz is split into day and time bought. The color of circle indicates category of thing bought. There was a lot of food and transportation.
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