Comments on: Data Visualizations at MoMA’s “Design and the Elastic Mind”: Beautiful, clever and heartwarming; but what is it trying to tell me?? http://blog.myplaceinthecrowd.org/2008/03/28/data-visualizations-at-moma%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cdesign-and-the-elastic-mind%e2%80%9d-beautiful-clever-and-heartwarming-but-what-is-it-trying-to-tell-me/ The Common Data Project Blog Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:49:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mimi Yin http://blog.myplaceinthecrowd.org/2008/03/28/data-visualizations-at-moma%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cdesign-and-the-elastic-mind%e2%80%9d-beautiful-clever-and-heartwarming-but-what-is-it-trying-to-tell-me/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Mimi Yin Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:23:08 +0000 http://blog.myplaceinthecrowd.org/2008/03/28/data-visualizations-at-moma%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cdesign-and-the-elastic-mind%e2%80%9d-beautiful-clever-and-heartwarming-but-what-is-it-trying-to-tell-me/#comment-39 Good point Hadley. <a HREF=http://blog.myplaceinthecrowd.org/2008/04/02/data-as-a-mainstream-consumer-good-2-approaches/ rel="nofollow">Here's </A>something else that requires having "a stake in the data": Contributing data in the first place. If you don't personally derive value from data that is being collected from you and about you, then why would you care about the accuracy and of the information you're providing? Good point Hadley.

Here’s something else that requires having “a stake in the data”: Contributing data in the first place. If you don’t personally derive value from data that is being collected from you and about you, then why would you care about the accuracy and of the information you’re providing?

]]> By: Hadley http://blog.myplaceinthecrowd.org/2008/03/28/data-visualizations-at-moma%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cdesign-and-the-elastic-mind%e2%80%9d-beautiful-clever-and-heartwarming-but-what-is-it-trying-to-tell-me/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Hadley Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:33:09 +0000 http://blog.myplaceinthecrowd.org/2008/03/28/data-visualizations-at-moma%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cdesign-and-the-elastic-mind%e2%80%9d-beautiful-clever-and-heartwarming-but-what-is-it-trying-to-tell-me/#comment-40 I think it's hard to create meaningful visualisations when you don't have any stake in the data. In this exhibition the authors must struggle to take data that you didn't know about it and make it both visually engaging and personally relevant. In most (non-art) situations you already have a big stake in the data - it's YOUR data and it's easy to create meaningful visualisations. I think it’s hard to create meaningful visualisations when you don’t have any stake in the data. In this exhibition the authors must struggle to take data that you didn’t know about it and make it both visually engaging and personally relevant. In most (non-art) situations you already have a big stake in the data – it’s YOUR data and it’s easy to create meaningful visualisations.

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