Data Art

Finding the beauty in numbers.

Blanket pattern visualizes baby’s sleep data

Seung Lee collected sleep data for his son’s first year. Then he knitted…

A view on despair

Sonja Kuijpers used abstract imagery to represent some sobering numbers: You might be…

Charts as a medium for expression

Christine Sun Kim, a deaf artist known for her work visualizing and creating…

Light installation shows future water lines against existing structures

Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta used sensors, LED lights, and timers to display…

From text to paint

Leslie Roberts uses paint to encode text as colors and geometry: My paintings…

Generate a noise field from an image

Kjetil Golid made an interactive that lets you generate a noise field using…

Rail delay scarf goes for $8,500 on eBay

Sarah Weber posted a picture of a scarf that her mom knit to…

Build a parasite to block your digital assistant

Digital assistants offer convenience, but they also offer continuous surveillance, and it’s not…

City road maps made into solvable mazes

Michelle Chandra uses street data as a base for solvable mazes: I draw…

Earth puzzle without borders

The Earth Puzzle by generative design studio Nervous System has no defined borders.…

Tree visualization to represent texting interactions

Shirley Wu used a tree metaphor to represent the interactions of five individuals…

Building statues of hope in augmented reality

Accurat, in partnership with the Google News Initiative, built an augmented reality app…

Create your own visual journal of data

Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec continue on their path of Dear Data with…

Coral-like cities to show road networks

Craig Taylor from Ito World used a coral metaphor to visualize road networks…

Morph, an open-source tool for data-driven art without code

Morph, by Datavized in collaboration with the Google News Initiative, is a tool…

Turning water pollution into audiolized awareness

Brian House collected polluted water with acid mine drainage in the Tshimologong Precinct,…

Algorithmic art shows what the machine sees

Tom White is an artist who uses neural networks to draw abstract pictures…

Synesthesia used to paint numbers through color

Lucy Engelman has synesthesia, which is a perceptual response where one sensory pathway…