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description: Ideation, interview & sketches (15/03/21 - 19/03/21)
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# Week 7

## Guest lecture | Laurens Aarnoudse

Laurens introduces himself and his dog. He explains that he wants to do research on the breed of his dog. He is going to do this by looking at quantitative data.

{% embed url="https://github.com/cross-cultural-data-literacy/" %}

**What kind of data you can find**\
1| _article/book/paper_\
2| _interactive data visualizations_\
3| _raw data_\
4| _metadata_\
5| _qualitative gathered data (by you)_

{% embed url="https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/" %}

{% hint style="info" %}
**Tip |** Search using key words and synonyms
{% endhint %}

{% embed url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flfuQI76_4E" %}

In this part of the video Laurens tells us that the data of the dogs is **male-oriented** at **11:44**. This is the subject of my personal project, only then about humans.&#x20;

{% hint style="info" %}
**Tip |** Write down questions and assumptions
{% endhint %}

**End note**

> Exploring your data is not a lineair proces.

## Results survey

{% embed url="https://www.survio.com/survey/d/V9U2U6I0Y2S4C4I4U" %}

To make the results more insightful i created a **Miro** board. Click on the link below

{% embed url="https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lPCqKJw=/" %}

I have supplemented my data document with the **new examples**

{% embed url="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W-9aSqIqS-6o_UjjIrcmO-d8Zul1jeridePd2CoxY3A/edit?usp=sharing" %}

## First sketches

After i categorized the data including the answers i got out of my survey i decided to make some **sketches for my concept** now that i have done more research.

![](https://2269634644-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MSXyFrHaFxhHbbeVqPW%2F-MVuagB3qQbWleeme_ns%2F-MVubGXyBLEEFvReHpU1%2FIMG_9267.jpeg?alt=media\&token=20d19643-d3f6-4e0d-8cc9-10a6680aab82)

De whole rectangular area in the middle of the paper symbolizes a webpage. I divided the 'webpage' in different sections to get a more clear idea of what i want to show.

The most important and interactive part of the page is where **the examples** are given. I made a more **detailed sketch** of how the examples could be shown. In this example i use a toggle bar and colors for clarity.&#x20;

![](https://2269634644-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MSXyFrHaFxhHbbeVqPW%2F-MVuagB3qQbWleeme_ns%2F-MVubKokTJqtR6D3KPb9%2FIMG_9268.jpeg?alt=media\&token=0866be94-eb77-475d-aa73-08c50560791b)



## Meeting Inbal Rief

After making my first sketches i needed some **feedback**. I scheduled a meeting with Inbal Rief. Inbal Rief is a Data Empathy designer with a lot of **experience** in information design. I wrote our interview/meeting in dutch _(see below)_

![](https://2269634644-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MSXyFrHaFxhHbbeVqPW%2F-MWYVPE-WZ89mnKHnY4h%2F-MWYgDdgi0c6ASeEf9SJ%2FSchermafbeelding%202021-03-24%20om%2011.03.37.png?alt=media\&token=34a73223-cc78-4051-9385-07db59ecfbd2)

![](https://2269634644-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MSXyFrHaFxhHbbeVqPW%2F-MWYVPE-WZ89mnKHnY4h%2F-MWYgGP6e9jrehH1pQ7w%2FSchermafbeelding%202021-03-24%20om%2011.03.50.png?alt=media\&token=1bd69fda-261c-4b23-a44d-0d51f9b10366)

**I made a list of important topics we discussed**\
They translate into the following questions:

* _How am i going to categorize the examples?_
* _How do i raise empathy for my subject?_
* _Is marketing an important factor (for my project)?_
* _What kind of visual language am i going to use?_
* _Am i going to add a complexity spectrum?_

These questions resulted in my **requirements list**\
**My visualization must...**

* Be interactive
* Tell a clear story
* Raise empathy for the subject
* Have the option to explore the examples given
* Tell the story/subject from different perspectives
* Use a fitting visual language

## Exercise

This week i did not complete the exercises with 100% commitment because i needed to work a bit harder on my personal project. However these **links** that were given as tips could be very **useful** in a later stadium:

{% embed url="https://www.databasic.io/en/" %}

{% embed url="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/" %}

The exercise was to make a quick visualization based on the data sheet made based on the **room drawings.**

![Chose one of the rows in the document](https://2269634644-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MSXyFrHaFxhHbbeVqPW%2F-MWZx5fZhvDypOcesI66%2F-MWdKKBFlXV4DfXMKxZr%2FSchermafbeelding%202021-03-25%20om%2012.41.45.png?alt=media\&token=351903db-581c-41dc-967e-0bc49f14a5dd)

![Deleted the rows that didn't contain answers](https://2269634644-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MSXyFrHaFxhHbbeVqPW%2F-MWZx5fZhvDypOcesI66%2F-MWdKSoyE63W_M8Hlyzq%2FSchermafbeelding%202021-03-25%20om%2012.45.08.png?alt=media\&token=06dd3fc8-8b01-4f00-898f-e4b301923deb)

![Categorized the countries and counted the plants and flowers](https://2269634644-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MSXyFrHaFxhHbbeVqPW%2F-MWZx5fZhvDypOcesI66%2F-MWdLKYvMQymyj4NeHh1%2FSchermafbeelding%202021-03-25%20om%2012.50.09.png?alt=media\&token=640174e7-1c46-4fc7-a38e-23c971a6e2e6)

**End result**

![](https://2269634644-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MSXyFrHaFxhHbbeVqPW%2F-MWZx5fZhvDypOcesI66%2F-MWdLezb5gs2_6ESeKv_%2Fschets.png?alt=media\&token=1980cc23-e01a-402e-8617-42ba841a6a3a)

**Tips i received**

![](https://2269634644-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MSXyFrHaFxhHbbeVqPW%2F-MWdcwLeQ_sjfqhZhxcZ%2F-MWdeSXqItDU0Nm1WYsC%2FSchermafbeelding%202021-03-25%20om%2014.53.41.png?alt=media\&token=97374a4f-411d-423f-9c9f-855b0888a6c2)

## Conclusion week 7

This week i received a lot of **useful feedback.** Next week I'm going to implement the feedback in some new sketches. From this point it is going to be a lot of sketching, prototyping, receiving feedback and **iterate** that process.
