Data Made Beautiful: An Artistic Data Visualization Approach

Develop a toolbox of artistic techniques to apply to data and create unique and expressive visualizations.

Created by: Carrie Rosales
Artist and Data Analyst

What Will I Learn?

• How to make an abstract piece of art out of data
• How to develop a toolbox of unique and artistic data visualizations to apply to a dataset
• How to catalogue a set of objects using scales of measurement
• Where to find inspiration and analyze existing works of art and utilize it's qualities in your piece without copying
• How to develop compositional sketches to guide your final piece

Requirements

• A complete beginner in data or art can complete this class, it was created for anyone!

Target audience

• Artists, data professionals, data hobbyists. For the data professional, it can add some unexpected flair to your data visualizations and if you’re an artist, you will learn to connect personal meaning to abstract art. For everyone else, it’s a fun exploration of your life's data, which can be visualized in a fun and unique way.