Data Stories: Visualizations with Unusual Materials
As these examples demonstrate, data does not have to be confined to a digital display. Professionals and amateurs use clay, yarn, and paint to create these unique data visualizations.
- By Upside Staff
- January 23, 2019
![DayDohViz](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2019/01/012319Vizclay.jpg)
Data visualization pro Amy Cesal uses Play-Doh to create unique, colorful, three-dimensional data visualizations.
![CNN](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2019/01/012319Vizyarn.jpg)
A German woman kept track of delays in her 2018 commute by knitting the information into this scarf, as reported by CNN.
![public art viz](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2019/01/012319Vizpaint.jpg)
Visual artist Roni Levit painted graphs and charts on public stairs and benches to publicize data about urban development in a city near Tel Aviv.