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Data Portrait

Dear Data (2016) by Georgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec

Objective

Create a data portrait out of a personal habit of yours.

Description

For Assignment 9, you will spend a week tracking a personal habit of yours to create a data-self portrait. Choose the personal habit mindfully — you will need to collect 20 ~ 50 data points for this assignment. Record the data onto a spreadsheet everytime it happens, and translate the spreadsheet into a JSON file. Animate your data self-portrait using setTimeout(), setInterval(), and any of the programming concepts you’ve learned in this class. Include an instruction on your CC portfolio to teach your audience how to read your data self-portrait.

Design Constraint

Canvas Size: 600 * 600

Timeline

Part 1 : Due 11/19

  1. Decide what kind of data you’d like to track, and collect two days worth of data in the form of a spreadsheet. Be prepared to share this in CC Lab.

Part 2: Due 12/1

  1. Present your idea & data in CC Lab, and translate your spreadsheet data into a JSON file during class.
  2. Once you have gathered seven days worth of data, import your JSON file into p5 and animate your data portrait using setTimeout(), setInterval() along other programming concepts you’ve learned in CC.
      3. On your CC portfolio page, please include the following:
    • A description of your Data Portrait. What was the personal habit you were trying to track?
    • An instruction for the viewers on how to read your data portrait.
    • Describe your design process. Include your spreadsheet data and any other sketches or images that would help us better understand your process.
      Your overall reflection on the assignment:
    • What did you learn about yourself through the process of self-tracking?
    • What was gained / lost through the process of data visualization?

Submission Guidelines

Please submit your sketch to two places:

  1. Submit the sketch to the CC Lab class Canvas Assignment 9
  2. Add the sketch to your Critical Computation portfolio

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