Gallery: These Hand-Drawn Postcards Are a Data-Viz Dream

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    Stefanie Posavec
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    Dear Data is a new data visualization project from Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec where they create illustrations out of the data of their personal lives. Here you see Posavec's complaints split into type to to whome she complained.
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    Stefanie Posavec
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    Giorgia Lupi
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    Lupi visualized her complaints as musical scores, with each separate score signifying the type of complaint and the notes illustrating the individual complaints.
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    Giorgia Lupi
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    Stefanie Posavec
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    A week of phone addiction split into days. Colors represent the different reasons for using the phone.
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    Giorgia Lupi
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    Lupi visualized her phone addiction as circles, with each circle representing the place or situation where she checked her phone and the lines/colors representing the reason why she interacted with it.
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    Giorgia Lupi
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    Lupi illustrated the number of times she looked in the mirror during the week. The colors represent where the mirror was, the length of the drop indicates how intentional the glance was and the dots explain what she thought while doing it.
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    Stefanie Posavec
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    Posavec's mirror week is represented by a grid. The circles indicate a glance, the x axis shows what time, the y axis shows what day.
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    Stefanie Posavec
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    The red shows a data void. Says Posavec: "Data Void due to me going clubbing and getting to drunk to remember to track....pretty sure I looked in mirrors but who really knows?"
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    Giorgia Lupi
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    A week of "thank yous" with the branches representing the different people she said thank you to. The symbols show what kind of thank you (irl, digital, sincere, in spanish).
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