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    Spreadsheets & Weathervanes: Materializing Data

    Weathervanes* Spreadsheets*

    Tom Armitage
    Friday, 4 October 13

    @tom_armitage tom@infovore.org

    Spreadsheets & Weathervanes


    Materializing Data
    Tom Armitage tom@infovore.org http://tomarmitage.com
    Friday, 4 October 13

    @tom_armitage

    Visualisation is a process.
    Friday, 4 October 13

    Data

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Data

    Meaning

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Data

    Meaning

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Data is a material.
    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    materialization

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Illustration

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Words

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Film

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Immaterials
    Friday, 4 October 13

    Timo Arnall, Jack Schulze

    Sculpture

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Devices

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Services

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Working on visualisation is a journey.


    Friday, 4 October 13

    D I K W
    Friday, 4 October 13

    Data Information Knowledge Wisdom


    Friday, 4 October 13

    Material Exploration
    Friday, 4 October 13

    Material Exploration
    Whats signicant? Whats interesting? Whats the scale? Whats feasible? What are the anchors? What does it aord?

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Toolmaking

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Tools
    Command-line utilities Web-based utilities R/SAS OpenRene (Google Rene) CartoDB Excel

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Show everything
    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Levels of detail

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Where does the journey go?


    What is the data saying? What else could it say? Do I understand it? Who is it for - and what level of detail is
    appropriate for them?

    What materials lend themselves to this?

    Friday, 4 October 13

    How will the user grow with the product?


    Friday, 4 October 13

    Data visualisation is never objective.


    Friday, 4 October 13

    (this is not a problem)


    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Friday, 4 October 13

    Spreadsheets & Weathervanes


    Materializing Data
    Tom Armitage tom@infovore.org http://tomarmitage.com
    Friday, 4 October 13

    @tom_armitage

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