Making Data : Materializing Digital Information

"For many outside of the scientific community, big data and the forms it takes, such as statistical lists, spreadsheets and graphs, often seem abstract and unintelligible. This book investigates how digital fabrication and traditional making approaches are being used to present data in newly engaging and interesting ways. The first part of the book introduces the basic premise of the data object and the concept of making digital data into a physical form. Contributors cover topics such as biometrics, new technology, the economics of data and open and community uses of data. The second part presents a selection of exemplar forms and contexts for the application of data-objects, such as smart surfaces, smart cities, augmented reality techniques and next generation technical interfaces that blend physical and digital elements. Making Data delivers the importance and likely future prevalence of physical representations of data. It explores the creative methods, processes, theories and cultural histories of making physical representations of information and proposes that the making of data into physical objects is the next important development in the data visualisation phenomenon."-- Provided by publisher Cover Contents List of figures List of contributing authors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Ian Gwilt Section One Making data: Theories 1 Data-objects: Thinking with your hands Adrien Segal 2 Shifting data between the material and the virtual is not an immaterial matter Dew Harrison 3 Data as environment: Physicalization strategies for communicating environmental data Laura Perovich and Dietmar Offenhuber 4 Designing explanations of data-based interactions in socio-technical systems Aaron Fry 5 Moving data: Visualizing human and non-human movement artistically Michele Barker and Anna Munster Section Two Making data: Practices 6 Uncanny landscapes: Tactile and experiential encounters with ecological data Zoë Sadokierski, Monica Monin and Andrew Burrell 7 Exploring digital-material hybridity in the post-digital museum Daniela Petrelli and Nick Dulake 8 Socio-material translations of data and value(s) Bettina Nissen 9 Personal data manifestation: A tangible poetics of data Giles Lane and George Roussos 10 Data and emotion: The climate change object Karin von Ompteda Section Three Making data: Techniques 11 Hybrid data constructs: Interacting with biomedical data in augmented spaces Daniel F. Keefe, Bridger Herman, Jung Who Nam, Daniel Orban and Seth Johnson 12 Sonic data physicalization Stephen Barrass 13 Making with climate data: Materiality, metaphor and engagement Mitchell Whitelaw and Geoff Hinchcliffe 14 Waterfalls as a form of AI-based feedback for creativity support Georgi V. Georgiev and Yazan Barhoush 15 Data as action: Constructing dynamic data physicalizations Jason Alexander Section Four Making data: Trajectories 16 Making data: The next generation Ian Gwilt and Aaron Davis Index Data objects thinking with your hands / Adrien Segal -- Shifting data between the material and the virtual is not an immaterial matter / Dew Harris -- Data as environment : physicalization strategies for communicating environmental data / Laura Perovich, Dietmar Offenhuber -- Designing explanations of data-based interactions in socio-technical systems / Aaron Fry -- Moving data : visualising human and nonhuman movement artistically / Michele Barker and Anna Munster -- Uncanny landscapes : experiential encounters with ecological data / Zoë Sadokierski, Monica Monin, Andrew Burrell -- Exploring digital-material hybridity in the postdigital museum / Daniela Petrelli & Nick Dulake -- Socio-material translations of data and value(s) / Bettina Nissen -- Personal data manifestation : a tangible poetics of data / Giles Lane & George Roussos -- Data and emotion : the climate change object / Karin von Ompteda -- Hybrid data constructs : interacting with biomedical data in augmented spaces / Daniel F. Keefe, Bridger Herman, Jung Who Nam, Daniel Orban, and Seth Johnson -- Sonic data physicalization / Stephen Barrass -- Making with climate data : materiality, metaphor and engagement / Mitchell Whitelaw and Geoff Hinchcliffe -- Waterfalls as a form of AI-based feedback for creativity support / Georgi V. Georgiev and Yazan Barhoush -- Data as action : constructing dynamic data physicalizations / Jason Alexande -- Making data : the next generation / Ian Gwilt and Aaron Davis The design of everyday life -- Thinking about things -- Gaps, cracks and questions -- The stuff of social practice -- The structure of the book -- Having and doing: the case of the "restless kitchen" -- Explaining kitchen renewal -- Modes of restlessness -- Missing materials -- Having and doing in balance -- Unrealized practices -- The dynamics of having and doing -- Consumption and competence: DIY projects -- Introducing DIY -- Accounting for DIY -- Doing DIY -- Consuming hardware -- Distributed competence -- Emerging projects -- Product, project and practice -- Reproducing digital photography -- Introducing photographic practice -- Going digital -- Doing digital photography -- Taking digital pictures -- Manipulating digital pictures -- Organizing, sharing and viewing digital images -- Innovations in photographic practice -- The materials of material culture: plastic -- Material narratives -- The promise requirement cycles of material culture -- Properties and performances -- Material-object relations -- The chromatic revolution -- Design and image -- The mass of production and consumption -- The social life of materials -- Theories and practices of product design -- Positioning design -- Product-centred design -- User-centred design -- Practice-oriented design -- Redesigning design? -- Products, processes and practices -- Connecting conclusions -- Implications and directions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index For many outside of the scientific community, big data and the forms it takes, such as statistical lists, spreadsheets and graphs, often seem abstract and unintelligible. This book investigates how digital fabrication and traditional making approaches are being used to present data in newly engaging and interesting ways.0The first part of the book introduces the basic premise of the data object and the concept of making digital data into a physical form. Contributors cover topics such as biometrics, new technology, the economics of data and open and community uses of data. The second part presents a selection of exemplar forms and contexts for the application of data-objects, such as smart surfaces, smart cities, augmented reality techniques and next generation technical interfaces that blend physical and digital elements. Making Data delivers the importance and likely future prevalence of physical representations of data. It explores the creative methods, processes, theories and cultural histories of making physical representations of information and proposes that the making of data into physical objects is the next important development in the data visualisation phenomenon "Delivering on the importance and likely future prevalence of physical representations of data, Making Data is an innovative and engaging study. For many outside of the scientific community, big data and the forms it takes, such as statistical lists, spreadsheets and graphs, often seem abstract and unintelligible. This book explores the creative methods, processes, theories and cultural histories of making physical representations of information and proposes that the making of data into physical objects is the next important development in the data visualization phenomenon"-- Provided by publisher