MFA Design and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design Bootcamp 2014
Visualizing posts from the MFADT Bootcamp 2013 blog
Data Scraped with Kimono
August 9th, 2014
3-hour workshop for the incoming students of the MFADT program at Parsons. The slides from the presentation can be found here.
1. Introduction
- Why use code to visualize data?
- Ben Fry's visualization process
2. Demonstration
- Acquiring data with Kimono
- Using Processing to parse and filter data
2. Exercise
- Draw as many as possible ways to represent the dataset in 2 minutes
3. Discussion: "the best way to show the data"
- William Cleveland's and Robert McGill's visualization scale
- Flowing Data's references
4. Live Code
- Students pick up one of the drawings to code together in Processing.
