Marcin Ignac mixing technology with art and design
Posts Tagged ‘data visualization’
From Cambridge to Gatwick : what can go wrong.
Last Sunday I was coming back to Copenhagen from my trip to London. Because I was staying with my friend in Cambridge and I already booked return flight from Gatwick airport I had a long way to go. Based on my previous trips I estimated that I will take me about 3-3.5 hours. How wrong [...]
Data Gestures
Data Gestures is a title of my final CIID project. It’s a very busy period for me so I’m publishing only a small info now. Description: This mobile application is a result of exploration of mobile gestural interfaces for personal data mining. By providing means both for collecting and visualizing data on the go this [...]
Is Data Visualization a way of story telling, exploration, or expression?
I’m just starting my thesis on data visualization recently I was talking about this issue with my thesis advisor. After reading Peter Gassner’s article Data Visualization Is A Tool, Too! on www.datavisualization.ch I decided to write this blog post. I see three big roles of data visualization: DataVis as a way of telling stories. It’s [...]
CIID Interaction Design Pilot Year @ infosthetics
Finally infosthetics.com published our (me and Kevin edited it together) article about Data Visualization course that we had last year at CIID. We described the process that we went through and wrote some lines about each project that we did. Check this out : Data Visualization Education at The Interaction Design Pilot Year.
Energy Rehab
Energy Rehab – this is the final name of our project. It took some time before I get used to it but now I think it’s quite cool. Basically we extended our idea about stickers indication how much energy device is using into energy prepaid cards. Just like in mobile phones. You buy a limit [...]
MoneyVis – visualizing private data
In the second week of our data visualization course we had to focus on one bigger project. Most people still worked with UNdata but I decided to choose a data set more important to me. Three years ago I started a small experiment. I keep track of all money I spend. I have one simple [...]
UNdata – visualizing public data
Finally! This is what I was waiting for so long, a data visualization course with Shawn Allen from Stamen. They are one of the most known design agencies specializing in data visualization in the world and I really love their works. The course started with quick introduction to ActionScript. I already knew it so I [...]