Data Design

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skills

• ability to collect, parse, sort, process data aquired by means of scrapping or by accessing preformatted sets of data.
• fluency in the technology of command line, HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript.
• ability to design static and dynamic data into visually engaging projects.
• ability to recognize patterns and relations in data.
• ability to research an issue through the data it generates, and translate it into a critical narrative.
• ability to design the implication of your research

knowledge

• history of data design (data visualization, information design, etc) and related fields (datajournalism, quantified self, etc).
• dark side of data design (privacy, ethics, etc)
• Internet culture, sharing and production of knowledge on the Clearnet and Darknet
• the legal aspect of data design (from licenses to open data)
• Historical elements of free and open source software culture and the impact of standard copyright and contract laws on networked media
• social media theory

attitude

TODO

Keuzemodulen

Quantified Selves

1. general intro on data design with a specific example (quantified self) + assignment to track food habits.
2. look at the data collected and what can you conclude about your other classmates based on the data they collected + assignment keep on collecting data
3. look at the data, look for patterns and or singular properties + assignment draw a conclusion about data and a. either collect more data or b. formulate the pattern into a narrative to be visualised.
4. Google chart your data + play different types of visualisation
5. discuss outcomes of trying different visual methods, did you learn something new and did it change your perspective? +
6. theory: how to go from data to product within the food field (small critical hint towards tracking with albert heijn bonus card, show birgit PZI project) + sketch
7. feedback on sketches + final turn of data collected into something that is relevant to your practice, for instance a journalistic report on your food habits, an encyclopedia of week-end snacks, a ready-to-wear collection based on your food trends analysed in your group, etc.
8. final presentation + guests