Strip Counts Set the Band Width, and a Photograph Inverts Black and White: IBM's Cosmograph
Series
44 pages
Data Physicalization
Knots, cubes, yarn, paper, beach trash, grains of rice, food. Reading cases that turned data into things you can touch, in chronological order, to learn how numbers are matched to materials.
160 Years of Paris Emptying Out at Its Center, Filmed in 10,000-Person Cubes: Chronique Démographique de la Région Parisienne
Showing Yes and No Twice, in Paper and in Numbers: Hans Haacke's MoMA Poll (1970)
One Grain of Rice Is One Person, and Every Pile Uses the Same Conversion: Stan's Cafe, "Of All The People In All The World"
Transcribing a Storm's Numbers into a Score, Then Weaving a Basket from It: Nathalie Miebach's Weather Data Sculptures
Showing Web Activity with Four Bars That Rise and Fall on a Table: Wable
100 Residents Become a Pie Chart on Stage: Rimini Protokoll's 100% City
Shrinking the Whole Budget to 8,880 Pennies, and Showing a $100 Million Cut as a Quarter of One: Matt Shapiro's Budget Video
A Century of Search Terms as the Height of Ten Moving Bars: Centograph
One IKEA Box for a Billion People: Hans Rosling's Physical Visualizations
