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CHLOE MARTEN
QUANT HUMANISTS
SPRING 2018
12 02 2018

Assignment 3: Blog Post: Reflection, link to assignment

This week we reviewed multiple ways to represent and visualize data. Coming from a UX background, I question the effectiveness analog representation can have to a broader audience. With the examples given in class, several of the visualizations made no sense to an outsider without further explanation. While I see the validity of this from a personal or artistic point of view, I wonder about accessibility in discussing and representing data in order to empower larger audiences. Ultimately, it comes back to why you are gathering and visualizing your data. If it is for your own understanding of self, then whatever you decide helps you make sense of things is, therefore, valid.

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Good points, @chloemar10, we'll talk more about the value of bespoke personal reflections over more-approachable and public facing visuals. In terms of UX, the primary user of these data about you, should be you. So if the system makes sense to you then it's a valid one for your own self-tracking. If you decide to build a service from your own self-tracking project later, then it def does make sense to create a more intuitive visual system. 💯

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