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Two alumni of the Information Design and Data Visualization MFA program are winners of the World Data Visualization Prize 2023, bestowed by partner organizations Information Is Beautiful and World Government Summit to honor exemplary data visualization and information design work shaping the world.
Experience Design and Information Design & Data Visualization (IDDV) students at Northeastern University achieved a significant milestone in their academic journey by defending their MFA theses.
On March 17th, 2023, the Information Design & Data Visualization (IDDV) students had the opportunity to attend a workshop on Concept Mapping conducted by the renowned designer, artist, and educator Hugh Dubberly.
Paolo Ciuccarelli, IDV faculty and director of the Northeastern Center for Design, has developed with IDV and CAMD students a massive 1 kilometer long public data display.
The public art projects Staubmarke and Ozone Tattoo are autographic displays that make aspects of air pollution—usually represented in abstract metrics—accessible to sensory experience.
Intersecting public art, science communication and information and graphic design, Professor Thomas Starr designed a series of public signs that situate probable futures due to climate change.
Libby Thomas, IDV student, recently completed her Data Dress project, which summarizes 160 years of census data into hand-stitched charts.
The AI Portraits system is trained on millions of photos of actors and actresses. We are using the faces of people in front of the camera to generate portraits with our Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs).
While DPMS images are usually used to show regional differences, this project visualizes temporal change in urban radiance from 1992 until 2015. It is the first interactive visualization of radiance time series data.
The Biennale, that ran from September 7-27 at Somerset House, has the theme “Utopia By Design”, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the publication of Sir Thomas More’s classic, Utopia (1516).
The 14 participants focused on issues relevant to Boston, such as pollution, rising water temperature, and local food production and imports.
Fu Xiangyi and Irene de la Torre, Interactive browser for Boston311 calls and Ryan Morill and Xinhe Yu, Correlates of War
Mahima Pushkarna, an Information Design and Visualization graduate student, recently participated in the RISE: 2015 Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo at Northeastern University, where she presented her project.
“Urban Entropy” is an effort to visually portray common, everyday urban “griping”—i.e. complaints submitted by individual citizens to the powers that be.
To capture the diversity of life above and below the sea surface in Antarctica, Skye used iconic photographs of the continent and compared color pixels from each image in a vertical bar.
Graduate Student Ryan Morill’s project is an analysis of rental prices on the lodging platform Airbnb in the Boston area—tracking bookings over a set period of time.
