Welcome Week Workshop on Data Comics
What?
This is an invitation to our Data Comics workshop, held on Saturday (September 16) afternoon (13:00-16:00) at the Evolution House, Edinburgh. During the workshop we will turn information, hidden in data, into compelling visualizations and data-comic stories. Goal is to create compelling data comics which can illustrate news articles, blogposts, posters or school books. For examples of data comics, visit http://datacomics.net.
The workshop is open to everyone (data science, art, design informatics, comic designers, .. ). No special skills are required.
To sign up, send me an email: bbach@inf.ed.ac.uk To sign up, send me an email: Benjamin Bach.
Why Data?
As data is all around us we must improve our awareness of the data and facts: health data recorded through fitbits, personal information on the internet and in social networks, social relationships, political polls, environmental data and so forth. Data collected from individual or collective online sources enables Google to predict epidemics and to run Google-suggest, it lets airlines change their prices with demand and seasons, it supplies machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence with the fuel to make predictions. With such an increasing datafication, the humans of the future (you) need a better understanding of what data means, where data is coming from and going to, and most important, they need to be able to argue and communciate insights in data.
Data Visualization
Designers and programmers are creating an ever increasing gallery of data visualizations, making use of the human capabilities for fast and parallel information processing. Beyond, many data visualizations are bridging into the area of art, aesthetics and playfulness. Data visualization makes use of our eyes' and brain's capability to quickly perceive graphical patterns.
Beyond creating data comics, the workshop will offer you:
- To socialize and meet people with similar interests,
- Learn about comics, data, and data visualization,
- Participate in science as we are investigating the power, design space, and the expressiveness of data comics.
For questions, contact Benjamin
Data Comic Examples
More on http://datacomics.net.
