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Quantified Selfie/Quantified Portrait of Something

  • Fitbit sleep + what's going on around the world while I'm sleeping?
  • NYFW:
    • designers presenting
    • number of looks
    • Google Trends information about that designer
    • k-means color palette
    • information about models walking
    • previous collections of label + history
    • average price of that designer's items on Barneys/Farfetch/Ssense/&c
  • choose a point of view of a specific designer and visualize their rise and fall over time, media attention, &c
  • xkcd effect: maps usually show data that's basically population/the world at night/English-speaking concentrations. How to avoid and visualize the unusual?
  • Nuclear Detonation Timeline and audio visualization
  • accidentally implying meaning that isn't actually there/implying relationships that are not meaningful
    • strive for meaningful adjacencies (as Michael Arad termed it—architect for the 9/11 memorial)
  • what happens when too much data occludes meaning?
  • highlight unexpected connections & context with the rest of the world
    • correlate emotional state with things I care about
  • the insignificant data that produces meaning: Maya Lin and her showing of all the zeros on the Yale women's table
  • data portraits of anonymous commenters? in lieu of normal identity, assemble it from their interactions with a community
  • it's ok to be subjective/focused with the visualization!
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