Man wears virtual reality headset. Another man throws a ball to headset-wearing man.…
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Bringing data into the real world.
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Catching a real ball in virtual reality
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Watch bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotic
Scientists at Harvard University setup the MEGA-plate, essentially a giant petri dish, with…
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Pythagorean theorem water demo
This is years old, but it still tickles the neurons every time. It’s…
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Fun in exchange for personal data
Sensible Data by Martin Hertig is an installation that asks what personal data…
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Gravity visualized in physics demo
Properties of time and space using marbles and two large pieces of spandex sewn together in a classroom demonstration.
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Turn a two-way mirror into an information display
Here’s a fun project to try over the weekend. Hannah Mitt and Andrew…
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3-D paper model of a shrinking sea
The Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, formerly one of the largest lakes in the…
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Entire English Wikipedia in physical print
The exhibit From Aaaaa! to ZZZap! opened last week with a hit of…
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Getting bees to construct geographic maps
In an exploration of the connection between humans an nature, artist Ren Ri…
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Brewing Multivariate Beer
I was toying around with the idea of multivariate beer, where the ingredients varied by county demographics. Could I taste the difference? Here’s how the experiment went.
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Data drawing pen pals
Stefanie Posavec, known around these parts for her manual data design and Giorgia…
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Wearable data objects that represent air pollution
For the most part, air pollution is invisible, so Stefanie Posavec and Miriam…
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Convert geographic data to 3-D models for printing
This seems like fun. The NodeJS package shp2stl by Doug McCune lets you…
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Cookie ingredient variants
For the holiday cookie makers, this one from Tessa Arias is for you.…
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Collection of physical visualizations
I’m pretty sure there’s a ton of untapped potential in data represented physically.…
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Using baseball bats to display data
When a baseball player is hitting well, commentators will sometimes say that it…
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Physical infographics
Photographer Marion Luttenberger used physical objects and people as her visual cues in…
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Crystal clusters of world data
Artist Scott Kildall generates what he calls World Data Crystals by mapping data…
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24 hours of Flickr photos printed to fill a room
People upload thousands of pictures to Flickr every day, but the numbers and…
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DisplayCabinet augments keys and wallet with data
DisplayCabinet is a clever use of a projected display and RFID tags to…