#occupydata free data now!
Matteo Azzi Michele Mauri DensityDesign Research Lab
visually represent complex social phenomena
relevant social issues
John Snow, Cholera Map 1854
DensityDesign students project, The Ilva Case 2013
Where does my money go?, OKF 2010
long infographics
openness
“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it."
Open Definition, OKF 2010
Macroscope, JoĂŤl de Rosnay 1975
Encyclopﾃｩdie, Diderot窶電'Alembert 1751
1 find the topic
2 get the data
3 early visualization
4 artifacts design
5 finalization
6 redesign for interaction
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data sources
structured
not structured
(opendata sites)
(wrangling)
visual bootstrapping
Bootstrapping, EMAPS Project 2012
visualization as tool not only as final output
data sources - Guido Romeo: health data et al. - opendata sites - everything (!)
useful links - infosthetics.com - flowingdata.com - datavisualization.ch
tools - easy (manyeyes, cartodb, ...) - medium (excel, gephi, illustrator, ...) - hard (d3.js, scriptographer, ...)
hacking
fare cose con cose che non sono pensate per fare quelle cose
sketching
Sketching wikipedia discussions, Densitydesign 2013
research protocol
Reasearch Protocol, Densitydesign students 2012
output format A3 - 420 x 297 mm.
output format web oriented
deadlines 11/07 - find the topic 12/07 - define first data sources 17/07 - visualization 19/07 - presentation
2 person team
it will be hard!