This is an update post by Dave and Slater covering the finishing touches we made to our project and documenting our process. The first step was to figure out what we wanted to do. We talked for a while and eventually decided we wanted to do something with an AI taking over the world, and…
Category: Data Art Project
Data Art – Enrollment at WPI by Racial/Ethnic Category – Carlos Velasquez
For my Data Sketch, I decided to represent the major ethnic/racial groups around our campus. According to the WPI data I gathered from https://public.tableau.com/ these are the top 5 ethnic/racial groups around campus: White – 2878 (white torus) Non-resident alien – 423 (red torus) Hispanic/Latino – 423 (green torus) Asian – 214 (orange torus) Black/African…
Beer Consumption per Capita (Top 5)
Welcome back to the bullseye of European beer consumption per litre. Whether you call it beer, bier, or pivo; one thing is for certain– beer is a big part of European culture. This time (unlike last time) it’s the top five countries instead of top four! Due to a clerical mistake, I forgot to include…
Growth of Hispanics in the USA by Country
Above shows the percentage of Hispanics in the USA by country. The order is largest to smallest and the circles alternate between two different percentages showing the growth of each. The circles first show the population of each Hispanic group in 2010 and then increases in size to show the population percentage in 2018 and…
Data Art – AMI in Young Adults
Since my data art sketch my concept has definitely changed. I originally began to add more cones to cover 25% of the sphere, as it had been suggested in a lot of the feedback I received. After playing around more in max, I actually found an interesting birds-eye perspective of a cone moving through a…
Data Art – Solar System of Racial Diversity in Undergraduate Universities
By: Sameer Desai For my improved Data Art Project, the user is able to change which college data set is used with the number keys and all the objects orbit in a circular path. In this version the user can hit “1” to show WPI data, “2” to show Harvard Data, “3” to show Yale…
Data Art – Hurricane Frequency
Haha hurricanes go whoooooooosh Anyways enough with the small jokes. Hello all! Here’s an update on my Data Art project based on my sketch. The concept of the design is still like my other post. Hurricane numbers are correlated with the temperature of the sea surface and made into a visual representation of a forest…
Data Art – Crime Rates in Massachusetts
For my project, I am aiming to represent the crime rates of the ten largest cities in Massachusetts. The number of crimes measured is calculated using the FBI Unit of Count. The concept I had in my data sketch is still the same, but I modified some things such as allowing the user to interact…
Data Art – Air Quality Inequality
For my project, I wanted to illustrate the difference in air quality around the world, and how it can be harmful to those breathing it. I used foreboding clouds with spikes, inspired by asbestos, to represent the lasting damage that pollutants in the air can cause. Additionally, I used particles to represent PM2.5 and PM10…
Data Art – % of Individuals using the Internet
In my project, I’m aiming to represent the percentage of people using the internet in different countries over several years. In the time since I created the sketch for this project, I’ve added a few more features, tweaks, and effects, though the main concept/design remains the same. The main new addition is interactivity. The user…
Data Art – European Jewish Population before and after the Holocaust
For the iteration of my data sketch, I decided to make an interactive animation. The animation uses text and images of each country’s flag to symbolize that country’s Jewish population. Clicking on the country’s name on the side brings up their flag with its size corresponding to the Jewish population before the Holocaust in 1933….
Data Art Project – Global Population
For my project I wanted to tackle the projected global population for the next century. Overpopulation is a problem I take very seriously because it directly impacts our environment, an issue I feel very strongly about. My initial concept was to have the a model of the earth represent the population, and it would scale…
Data Art- Comparing Gender of Children in China
Movement of Cubes (Males) There are who different patterns of movement for the cubes (males). The first one is in the foreground. It is the cubes in vertical diagonal lines and them connecting to each other before disappearing. The second is in the mid ground. The cubes are moving in horizontal lines but are also…
Carbon Cubes – Data Art
For my next iteration of my “Carbon Cubes” piece of data art, I focused on adding movement and mouse interactivity. As I stated in my previous post, each cube represents the carbon emissions of a country. I have made no changes in this regard, and the order remains that the blue cube represents Europe’s carbon…
Updated Data Art Project
For the continuation of the Data Sketch assignment, I chose to add movement to my design.