Information Design Portfolio Eleonora Grotto by Eleonora Grotto

DATA VISUALIZATION

ELEONORA GROTTO

DATA VISUALIZATION

Eleonora Grotto Visual and Communication Designer Information Visualization Designer www.eleonoragrotto.com

INDEX

Index

01 02 Master thesis

Aphrodite

Research Report and website

Immaculate Conception Available

Research Reports

Sprints and Researches

Aphrodite

Information design as a strategic skill in understanding knowledge production.

Data collecting, Data shaping, Data visualization, Data analysis DATA VISUALIZATION

01 01 Digital Methods Controversies Data collectiong Dataset creation Data shaping Information design Knowledge Data visualisation Data analysis Research

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Aphrodite Information design as a strategic skill in understanding knowledge production Information Visualization is gradually acquiring importance in the Communication Design field. What the thesis aims to do in relation to this field, is to test the skills of information visualization design and the designer role within knowledge contexts, exploring the potential of data and information structuration, of visualizations and of the design-oriented methodology within the knowledge process. Empirically try to experiment the way the information design should work in order to produce meaningful visualizations and to make the knowledge process more effective. Is it the information visualization design useful? Does it allow us to dare with the huge amount of data and information that

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Digital Methods APHRODITE

Controversies Data collectiong Dataset creation Data shaping Information design Knowledge Data visualisation Data analysis Research

can be collected through the web? Does it give an input to organise and analyse information in a meaningful way? Could it actually represent a path to follow in order to explore an unknown topic? Through the following visualisations it has been possible to get through the controversial topic of sexual paraphilias without having a solid background about them. Information design was used as strategic skill to investigate this topic both from a sociological and psychological point of view. Identify the role of the designer in the action of transforming data in graphic representation is easily framing, just analyzing each term inside “Information Visualization Design”i.e. the creation of graphic systems capable of transforming a set of raw data in a meaningful conformation, readable for the users. To do this, design makes use of some aspects such as the shape, the functionality and the ratio between the two: these graphic devices are subordinate to the communicative function and so at the design field. As communication design is considered to have the primary purpose of giving visual form to things, of providing visual representations and tangible points of view, the inclusion of information visualization design in this field of study is easily understandable.

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VISUALISE INFORMATION

Information visualization is not just a matter of displaying a set of data, already structured and with quantitative nature. What is visualized are not simple data, but information, both quantitative and qualitative. Grefé R. underline that “Design is the intermediary between information and understanding”. This idea is increasingly materializing, opening new considerations concerning the role of the designer and the methods by which he participates in knowledge process. In this process, the designer has to deal with the link between technology and society, the definition of new digital spaces and the need to analyze them, the exploration and the narration of enormous wealth of information produced by the actors involved in a dispute, considering that the complex spaces of disputes and controversies, where knowledge is still not settled, are the areas to be preferably analyzed. What is asked to the designer is to assemble the most heterogeneous information, points of view and practices in the same communication space, an optically coherent space, reaffirming that isolated information are meaningless data and that the process through which they are connected and narrated, represents a real activity of knowledge investigation and so, in its understanding and assimilation or even its production.

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DIGITAL SPACE DIGITAL SPACE

Another consideration concern the increasing role of the Internet, that has enlarged the ground of information visualization action including the web world. Manage online digital and digitalized dataset requires additional computational skills for the designer. As well, he has to be able to recognize the quality of the information he is working with . Online data, information and knowledge are not only scientific, mono-disciplinary and unambiguous, but often a ““rumour” or a “fad” becomes almost as precisely described as a “piece of news”, “information”, or even a “scientific fact”.” (Latour, 2007). There is no clear and declared separation between science and pseudoscience, facts and values, truths and opinions: everything is mixed. Moreover, the Internet has changed the traditional forms to access and produce knowledge, bringing crucial changes in the society and in its relation with technology: the designer has to understand them as he has to deal with their analysis. “The traditional design role has been to recognize technological innovation and translate it in socially acceptable products and service. [...] But now, something else has to be done. The bridge between technology and society has to be built in the opposite direction too: to recognize social innovation and to translate it in technically (and economically) feasible

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products and service. This requires not only new design tools, but also a different idea of the designers’ role” (Manzini 2009). This reversal of perspectives is not to be intended as static, rather it is a movement that the designer has to follow all the time. He has to move between different perspectives, not to be harnessed in a standard one-way tunnel but to use the multidisciplinarity and the different points of view, conceiving the visualization not only as the last artifact to be produced at the end of a research to present the results, but as a tool for problem setting, able to give input, to organise and structure information, to dare with the huge amount of data, to show errors and paths. “The bridge between technology and society” cited by Manzini, is what allows to both the fields to improve: the capacities of the first lead to increase knowledges in the second, the demands of the second to develop the first, to offer new challenges and the research of new solutions. Therefore, the designer must know how to extrapolate, structure, manipulate, display and communicate information, to build tools and also to know how to observe and interpret the structures which he aims to analyze. He has to face complexity, dynamic systems, undefined and non settled systems.

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CONTROVERSIES AND SOCIAL COMPLEXITY CONTROVERSIES AND SOCIAL COMPLEXITY

“Controversies and social complexity require new ways of understanding and developing tools that can collect them, that amplify and connect the all actors’ voices. These voices, often perceptions, are at the base for knowledge construction. Since not shared, they are considered transient and unstable and they intensified forms of social, political and ethical uncertainty. Therefore, visual writing skills emerge as to be strategic, developing mutable explanations of the data reasoning and interpretation. The information visualization abitity should be able to explain the inevitable distortions of reality that accompany d ecisions. In this sense, the information design confronts itself with the difficult task of expressing the multiplicity of complexity.” (Ricci, 2010). The challenge that information visualization design should take up is to build bridge-artifacts, not crystallized networks, to represent the social dynamism and its complexity, the data, information and knowledge comparison and above all, the actors different points of view, without denying the conflictual dimension, trying to show the divergence and disagreement points. The conflict is indeed, as already explained, the constructive property of every dialogue, every relation and every process of knowledge and decision.

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“Now here is the challenge: In its long history, design practice has done a marvellous job of inventing the practical skills for drawing objects, from architectural drawing, mechanic blueprints, scale models, prototyping etc. But what has always been missing from those marvellous drawings (designs in the literal sense) are an impression of the controversies and the many contradicting stake holders that are born within with these. […] four hundred years after the invention of perspective drawing, three hundred years after projective geometry, fifty years after the development of CAD computer screens, we are still utterly unable to draw together, to simulate, to materialize, to approximate, to fully model to scale, what a thing in all of its complexity […] we are a long way from being able to provide for things, that is for matters of concern, a visual, publicly inspectable space that is as remotely as rich, at least as easy to handle, and as codified as what has been done over four centuries for objects conceived of as matters of fact. [...] Why should this prove to be an impossible task? Why can the powerful visual vocabulary that has been devised in the past by generations of artists, engineers, designers, philosophers, artisans and activists for matters of fact, not be devised (I hesitate to say restyled) for matters of concern?” (Latour 2008). In taking up this challenge and graphically represent a system, there is no reference to metaphorical images, but to the relationship between the reality and the mental models on the basis of it is perceived and interpreted.

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MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

What can be noticed looking at what should be the role of the designer, is that he must have the capacity of managing multidisciplinary - understood as the coexistence of different scientific knowledges. According to Anne Balsamo, the designer would be able to meet all this because it has the qualities that allow him to quickly surf between different perspectives, take into account different point of views, integrate all with tools that expand mental capacities, as well as create prototypes to evaluate their reliability and functionality. This multidisciplinary was certainly not an easy hurdle to overcome in the evolution of this thesis. Although my studies background is quite heterogeneous, at the beginning of this experiment it did not fully meet the requests, especially those related to the specific IT and social field. On the other hand, the method acquired during my studies, especially in relation with problem solving, allowed me to face new issues and improve my skills, both inside a particular area and more generally in the ability to respond actively and dynamically to new stimuli, considering different perspectives and not staring at one-way only. And this is definitely what, on a personal level, I consider as a major contribution that this work gave to myself.

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THE PROCESS THE PROCESS

[ FIG. ] Uncleaned result from the “seel also” section analysis. It contains 13543 nodes. (Different zooms)

Sexual Orientation, the initial topic chosen for this inquiry, is a debated area of not yet sedimented knowledge, where the controversy concerning its definition is actual and open and that finds its space as well in a digital context, where, moreover, users identities can be anonymous. A first investigation has been performed in the wikipedia talk page of “Sexual Orientation” article,where the main controversies have emerged: the accuracy of the definition of “sexual orientation” and the possibility of redefine pedophilia, zoophilia and other sexual attraction considered paraphilias, as normal sexual orientation. Because of this, the research has changed its focus for the topic of sexual paraphilias. Thanks to the connection created by the “see also” section of each article, it has been created a network that, cleaned (both manually and with authomathed methods) and spazializated, has 1336 nodes, i.e. articles (There were 13543 nodes before the cleaning action). These articles have been read and manually tagged in order to carry out a dataset that include subject, category and timeline of each article. It has been detected as well the links of each article to the respective pages in the different Wikipedia language editions. The created database has been visualized and analyzed. What have risen is a preponderant deployment in the

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THE PROCESS

sociological and psychological areas, both concerning the paraphilias themselves and the ways they are perceived and judged, that is strongly based on social and cultural norms. The topic presence is itself index of interest, promoting the study of these subjects that concern essentially people and society psyche and wellness. Moreover, the potentialities of Wikipedia and of the visualization design have emerged, concluding with a possible starting point: the use of the created network in the psychological fiend, to individuate the symbolic matrix of a patient affected by a form of paraphilia.

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[ FIG. ] From left to right: data tagging table; cleaned network, called “Aphrodite network”; zoom of a network’s cluster. Round image: cleaned network zoom

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Content analysis On the side, top, left to right: Timeline showing each article timeline (divided per subject); zoom of it; timeline showing fist and last edit for all the articles (all subjects). In this page: Scatterplot showing the relation between categories and subjects and the number of articles belonging to each relation (node size); zoom of it.

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Network analysis (some examples) On the side, from the top: “Aphrodite Network” overall reading and Paraphilias nodes position in the network and label by cluster (Paraphilias). In this page, from the top: “Aphrodite Network” mircocluster analysis and “Aphrodite Network” mircocluster analysis, zoom.

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Cluster analysis (example: BDSM cluster) On the side, from the top: “Aphrodite Network” examinated nodes position, cluster connections analysis; zoom of it. In this page, from the top: “Aphrodite Network” examinated nodes zoom, nodes categories attribute, cluster analysis (BDSM cluste).

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Languages analysis On the side: Barplot, number of article per languages (languages with more than 100 articles linked with the english version of the article). Comparison with different wikipedia editions. In this page, from the top: Barplot, number of languages per articles (Articles with more than 49 languages linked with the english version of the article). Barplot, number of languages per articles (Paraphilias articles)

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Languages analysis On the side: matrix, languages per article (Articles with more than 49 languages linked with the article english version). In this page, from the top: Matrix, languages per article (Paraphilias articles); Matrix, languages per article (Articles not present in the main european languages - linked with the english version: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German).

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THE REPORT THE REPORT

The whole process explanation and the visualisations analysis has been presented as a report and discussed as master thesis on December 2015 in Milan. The full text is not public yet, feel free to contact me for further information about this project.

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Immaculate Conception Available

Data collecting, Data shaping, Data visualization, Data analysis Website DATA VISUALIZATION

How does Indian Surrogagy looks like?

Digital Methods Controversies Data collectiong Dataset creation Data shaping

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Information design Knowledge Data visualisation Data analysis Web design

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Immaculate Conception Available How does Indian Surrogacy looks like? For this research, the controversial topic me and my team work on was the surrogacy practice. Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman carries and delivers a child for another couple or person. Even if a lot of people don’t know about this practice, after a first step of methodic web research we discovered that the topic was trending and generating many discussions throughout the web.

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Digital Methods IMMACULATE CONCEPTION AVAILABLE Controversies Data collectiong Dataset creation Data shaping Information design Knowledge Data visualisation Data analysis Web design A biggest subtopic emerged from this preliminary research: surrogacy tourism in India. And this is what we decided to focus on. “How different countries look at surrogacy tourism in India?” We started from this question to develop our research, looking at four different domains: .com (golbal/USA), .co.in (India), .co.uk (United Kingdom), .it (Italy). The choice was related with the different law regulations of those countries. The report is available online in high quality HERE.

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Ps y c ho l o gi c al pro bl em s fo r s urro gate m o t hers

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THE PROCESS THE PROCESS

The research process was based on the Digital Methods. All the data used for the analysis was taken from the web by the team, studied, refined and visualized. The deep analysis performed with the report let us understand which and how many opinions are available in different countries about surrogacy in India and underlined interesting aspects of the controversy, like the role of the media and the legal development of the practice, as well as a big debate about indian surrogate mothers’ condition.

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THE WEBSITE THE WEBSITE

Following the report, our team was asked to design and produce a website taking a position in the controversy and presenting the results of our research.Our action is more like an advocacy action. Our goal is to change the actual situation: we agree with surrogacy in India but, as it is exercised at the moment is not a fair situation for the surrogate mothers. The website can be visited HERE.

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WEBSITE DEVELOPEMENT FIRST QUESTION: inspecting the awareness EXPLANATION: give information SECOND QUESTION: stimulate the reflection

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THE WEBSITE Moreover, there is no regulation, just “bill draft”, that still are not equal and fair regarding surrogate mother rights. We created “The Bill, Please” a website aimed to involve and inform the user about the indian surrogacy tourism and indian surrogate mothers’ condition. This project is addressed to the indian country, with the aim to create awareness and rise activism. It might also be used by activist groups working on the territory in many ways. We developed it not with the sole purpose of presenting data, but with the intent of using data and analysis to raise consciousness and stimulate people to take action. As regards the visual choices, we chose to use infotography as our language. We developed a series of metaphors based on food placed in a medical atmosphere, to accompany the fruition of the contents, explain visually some practices, enhance the message and at the same time not interfere with the perception of the topic by putting raw images. The website is based on a series of controversial questions presented to the user: for every section a first question has the purpose of inspecting the awareness on the topic (we stated through the report that many radical opinions about the topic were based on ignorance) and then the second stimulates the reflection of the users, who can also go deeper in the topic by opening the focus sections of every question. These focus parts add data adapted from the report to the mixture, making the experience deeper and more involving. Related with this project, it has been designed a “take action” campaign that can be seen HERE.

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Sprints and Researches Some test and experiments addressed to understanding and improve digital and real data possibilities and usage.

Data collecting, Data shaping, Data visualization, Data analysis DATA VISUALIZATION

03 03 Digital Methods Controversies Data collectiong Dataset creation Data shaping Information design Knowledge Data visualisation Data analysis Research

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03 03

Sprints and Researches Some test and experiments addressed to understanding and improve digital and real data possibilities and usage. In different occasions I have had the opportunity to investigate phenomena taking advantage of the complementarity between digital methods and design visualization, to test the online disputes mapping process, the data structuration process and the data representation. I have researched over some case studies, different one to the

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Controversies Data collectiong Dataset creation Data shaping Information design Knowledge Data visualisation Data analysis Research

other by themes and purposes, each having peculiar characteristics. For each experience, I have tried - in a more or less significant way, according to the project - data digitization, data extraction, data structuration, manipulation, display and presentation. These experiences started inside the Final Course at Politecnico di Milano (Design Density Research Lab), where I also have developed my Master Thesis (See Chapter 01 of this portfolio) after having experienced in EMAPS Sprint (Amsterdam), Digital Methods Initiative (Amsterdam), Fundaciò Barcelona Media (Barcelona), Sciences Po MediaLab (Paris). Being researches and experiments, the value they have stays in the methods and the foundings more than in the appearance of “beautiful design”. In these cases, more than the artistic dimension of the visualisations, it is important the research, the possibilities offered by the visualisatioin in knowledge understanding and the role of the designer in the process.

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EBOLA SPILLOVERS EBOLA SPILLOVERS

From November 2014 to August 2015, I have been Intern at the Médialab of the university Fondation Nationale Des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po). During this experience I had the possibility of taking part and seeing the development of different projects, both in the controversies visualization field and in the creation of supporting tools for the data investigation and analysis. I have been particularly involved in a project, commissioned by ESFA Italia: “Identification and analysis of the main drivers for Ebola Virus spillover”. In this last project, data were not native digital but digitalized, result of a manual structuration starting from selected papers. The tasks were mainly aimed to data structuration methodologies and data visualization, more than data extraction. This research has been publicated the 2015, june 27th and can be read HERE.

[ FIG. ] On the side. Some pages taken from the published paper “Identification and analysis of the main drivers for Ebola Virus spillover”.

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CONTROPEDIA TARGET CHANGE

During my internship at Fundaciò Barcelona Media, I took part to one of the “Contropedia Hackathon” for the development of a new platform, “Contropedia”. This project has raised from the idea of taking advantage of the Wikipedia’s spaces of debate potential and the peculiarities of these spaces, that assimilate the research with the the digital participative knowledge context. I have had the opportunity to initially take part and contribute to the platform development itself, and then to analyse more deeply the talk page structure. Specifically I have manually labelled substantive discussions in discussion threads. The goal was to find out which are the most important to read to get a sense of what really happened in the story of the article and to test the algorithm used by Contropedia platform in order to improve and/or fix it. [ FIG. ] On the side, from top to bottom. Data extracting table related with the discussion “Pedophilia” in the Wikipedia sexual orientation talk pages. Network of the discussion “Pedophilia” in the Wikipedia sexual orientation talk pages.

I’ve tested this method on the “global warming” article previously, and then I’ve executed the same analysis on the “sexual orientation” article. These research have been publicated as case studies in the platform website HERE.

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DIGITAL METHODS DIGITAL METHODS

In June 2014, I took part to the Digital Methods Summer School.

[ FIG. ] On the side, from top right to bottom. “Mapping the JD Archive: Fukushima”: DMI-TCAT Cascade output showing distinct user and bot tweeting patterns; Gephi Geolayout graph connecting hashtags to geolocations. “Event Impact onInstagram following an Official Hashtag” : Flux graph showing the posted pictures content during the event; published pictures frequency in time and related likes and comments.

“Digital Methods Initiative” can be difined as a contribution to doing research into the “natively digital”. As they explain, the initiative is twofold: they wish to interrogate what scholars have called “virtual methods,” ascertaining the extent to which the new methods can stake claim to taking into account the differences that new media make (Hine, 2005). Amsterdam-based new media scholars have been developing methods, techniques and tools since 1999. These tools include scripts to scrape web, blog, news, image and social bookmarking search engines, as well as simple analytical machines that output data sets as well as graphical visualizations. The projects I’ve worked on are “Event Impact on Instagram through Following an Official Hashtag” and “Mapping the JD Archive: Fukushima, Twitter and the Politics of Disaster Communications” The link to the projects are HERE for the event impact on Instagram and HERE for the JD archive Mapping.

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EMAPS - CLIMAPS EMAPS - CLIMAPS

In March 2014 I took part of the EMAPS Sprint in Amsterdam. The Electronic Maps to Assist Public Science, is a 3-year research project funded by the EU that advanced an innovative method called ‘controversy mapping’ to visualise the main actors and controversies around two major scientific debates: an ageing population and climate change adaptation. The EMAPS project was designed to assess the opportunities VIZ.6

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and risks in the use of the web and the social media as a meaningful tool to foster participatory communication between LEGEND scientists and the different publics of science and technology. It draws on a set of theories and scientific practices ranging from digital methods to climate science.

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Michele Mauri, DensityDesign Mario Porpora, DensityDesign Wannes Sanderse, UvA Rik van Eijk, UvA

Michele Mauri, DensityDesign Mario Porpora, DensityDesign Wannes Sanderse, UvA Chiara Gagliardi, DensityDesign Eleonora Rik vanGrotto, Eijk, DensityDesign UvA PROJECT 1 PAGE 6

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[ FIG. ] Flux map designed during EMAPS Sprint (2014). It shows the adaptation strategy on climate change for each nation during time, highlighting the different stages.

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