DATA REMIX

WHAT IS DATA?

Data is distinct pieces of information, usually formatted in a special way.
Data can exist in a variety of forms -- as numbers or text on pieces of paper, as bits and bytes stored in electronic memory, or as facts stored in a person's mind.

It is also information in raw or unorganized form (such as alphabets, numbers, or symbols) that refer to, or represent, conditions, ideas, or objects. Data is limitless and present everywhere in the universe.

There is a process which follows a series of steps when working with data in order to come up with an effective outcome and result. These are:

Data Gathering
Data Categorization
Data Analysis and Manifestation Making
Data Visualization

There are in turn different ways of collecting data such as:
Experiments
Sample Surveys
Observational Studies


And also different ways of representing data like:
Charts
Histograms
Plots
Pictograms
Graphs etc.

Timo Arnall

"Wireless networks in the physical world"

Utopian and radical architects in the 1960s predicted that cities in the future would not only be made of brick and mortar, but also defined by bits and flows of information. The urban dweller would become a nomad who inhabits a space in constant flux, mutating in real time. Their vision has taken on new meaning in an age when information networks rule over many of the city's functions, and define our experiences as much as the physical infrastructures, while mobile technologies transform our sense of time and of space.

Ben Tricklebank

"Light Echoes "

Traces of light are broadcast onto landscapes by a laser aboard a moving train. Space and time are collapsed into images which document the historical pulses of data in the form of light reflecting off earth and matter. A collaboration with Ben Tricklebank and part of Doug Aitken's Station to Station.

Edward Tufte

Edward Rolf Tufte is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization.