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Assignment 2: Step A – Choosing Data Set

 In class we discussed on possibilities, I was interested into languages, and more specifically dead languages, and it occurred to me to look at Euskera language. - Euskera is a language which isn't very spoken nowadays, but given the recent political constellation has increased importance, its frequent speakers have increased in number across past years - looked for data at the Euskadi Open Data Bank, data on the 4 provinces + whole País Vasco, every 4 years Another possibility is bike accidents in Madrid --> Despite being a frequent cyclist in Rotterdam I find biking in Madrid dangerous and challenging - found in Madrid open data bank, data on bike and electric accidents in Madrid over the past year: street, coordinates, gender, age, severity of the accident (and extent medical assistance), drug and alcohol influence and so on.           * fun fact: none of the cyclists in any accident were under the influence of alcohol or drugs

Easter in Spain

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To me, the most shocking procesión was Servitas on Friday - jesus already died and it's only the virgin in a very modest throne. The lights of the streets are switched off as the virgin passes through and the crowd gets quiet. It really stirs your emotions.  Before in the past, there were two days in which there was no newspapers or bread from bakeries: Christmas and Good Friday. If we look at countries like Spain, it is impossible to deny the huge influence religion has had upon our culture. 

Wednesday 13th Session - Lecture by Gerllinde Schuller

Systematic storytelling format  - not necessarily linear - "Designing universal knowledge": works with system of encyclopedia and hyperlink, ability to get ≠ perspectives on data Methods organisation: - 5 categories, time (735yrs) - 2 languages - hyperlinks - archive tools Storytelling graph - traditional storytelling follows a timeline - what Gerllinde did, start in the present, and jump back in time, getting a chain reaction of 200 stories, with 2 layers of stories - inspired by art, visual stories... for instance Trajan's columns, repeats standardized scenes and in a circle - theatre representing life of amsterdammers based on stats and demographics chose the participants and would perform they day in stage --> Living statistics Why systematic storytelling? - method to communicate complex narratives > new storytelling format - facilitates non-linear reading - bridges across different media (web, app, print...) - creates open, flexible systems - slows down info ab...

Final dear data

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Colors are representative of the emotions i myself associate to those colors 

branches of dear data

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Thinking about how to make the branches look nice and at the same time have a meaningful interpretation I came up with the idea of them being the length of the amount of conversations of that day  They're read from left to right A thought about this: how impactful is language and writing that our brains are wired to automatically read from left to right and make sense of it

Ideas for the Dear Data

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I'm counting the number of interactions and thinking hoe to put them into the tree

Tuesday 12th

Adrianos and Dimitri Guard at EUC Adrianos Economic history PBL Santi Desi Economic history PBL Nick Lodder Adrianos and Dimitri Guard at EUC Cathalijne Desi, Viana and Chris Fei and Silvia Diana Santi and Rebecca Woman at shop