{"id":74402,"date":"2022-10-15T12:46:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T16:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/?p=74402"},"modified":"2022-10-15T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T16:46:52","slug":"looking-outwards-07-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/2022\/10\/15\/looking-outwards-07-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Outwards 07"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For this week’s Looking Outwards, I looked at the works of Stephanie Posavec. I was intrigued by her works simply by the color visuals I saw when first opening up her website. Her goals are set around visualizing and communicating data in new ways. The project of hers I chose to focus on was Data Murmurations: Points in flight<\/em>. This project visualized data samples, but connected them back to the people who actually donated samples. The title murmuration comes from a group of birds in the sky following a path. They converge and diverge in their journey. One thing lacking from Posavec’s description of her work is a description of the more technical tools she used to create her work. She uses sorting algorithms to sort all of her data and then visualize it, but I am not too sure about the specifics. I could assume there are some simple if statements about the data, such as if it is one thing it goes somewhere and if it is another it goes somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n