Two alumni of the Information Design and Data Visualization MFA program are winners of the World Data Visualization Prize 2023.
Experience Design and IDDV students achieved a milestone in their academic journey by defending their theses. The defense took place on April 5 and April 7, with seven students presenting their research.
Experience the highlights of a successful workshop on Concept Mapping by renowned designer, Hugh Dubberly. The Workshop was a highly informative and engaging event for Information Design & Data Visualization (IDDV) students...
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. In both projects,…
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. These…
Libby Thomas, IDV student, recently completed her Data Dress project, which summarizes 160 years of census data into hand-stitched charts. The project was developed for her Information…
What is real and what is fiction? The AI Portraits system is trained on millions of photos of actors and actresses. We are using the faces of…
East Boston is where some of the strongest currents in the city run close to the surface. Issues of immigration, development, affordable housing, public health, and the…
A new national survey commissioned by Northeastern University and conducted by Gallup finds most U.S. adults have an overall positive view of artificial intelligence, but believe they…
One of the Fall 2017 Visualization Technologies course sections was taught by Erica Gunn; an alumna of the IDV program who graduated in May of 2017. Erica…
Much of the human experience is archived as text. Recent advancements in large-scale data processing and machine learning have given us tools to visually explore the legacy…
The students of Professor Mauro Martino’s studio 2 course worked on a digital remix of Stephanie Posavec and Giorga Lupi’s acclaimed “Dear Data” project, drawing inspiration from…
While national debate in the United States continues over financial disclosure practices for federal officials, personal financial disclosure for state and local officials remains an under-studied area…
What have global data sets that estimate population density, economic productivity, measles outbreaks, rural poverty, resource footprints and electrification rates, urbanization and suburbanization, or average wages in…
Pedro Cruz, Assistant Professor in the IDV program, authored together with Marta de Menezes the Portuguese participation in the London Design Biennale. The participation was curated by…
On June 23 and 24, 2016 as part of the Indexical Design Symposium, the IDV program hosted the Data Cuisine Workshop, an initiative by Susanne Jaschko and…
Fu Xiangyi and Irene de la Torre Interactive browser for Boston311 calls Ryan Morill and Xinhe Yu Correlates of War
Visualization Technologies The Crunchbase data set provides information on major venture capital investments since 2007. In this course, students were asked to visualize this network of relations…
Every day Twitter users compose more than 500 million tweets, and Instagram users upload more than 58 million photos. Social platforms organize individuals around shared values and…
Information Design and Visualization MFA 2016 Thesis Show 28 April – 18 May Reception: 28 April / 5 – 7pm Gallery three Sixty 360 Huntington Ave., Boston,…
For the upcoming exhibition, Megacities Asia, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston approached us to develop diagrams that compare the five mega-cities Mumbai, Delhi, Shanghai, Beijing,…
B.A.D. is an exploratory tool for physiological, affect and context data. The data visualized below contains such body measurements as heart rate, skin temperature, galvanic skin response,…
A visualization that is part of graduate Student Lia Petronio’s MFA thesis, entitled “Trigger Events: Mass Shootings, Causality, & Discursive Inertia.” The project explores Mass Shootings from…
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….
As part of the ‘Northeastern Energy Flows’ research project this interactive data visualization system provides access to fine grain data on energy consumption, building occupancy, climatic conditions…
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…
“Dietmar Offenhuber’s work considers city dwellers’ unscrutinized habits and behaviors. “Urban Entropy” is an effort to visually portray common, everyday urban “griping”—i.e. complaints submitted by individual citizens…
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…
Information Design Studio 2: Visual Energy Flows Spring 2015 Instructor: Kristian Kloeckl, Associate Professor, Art + Design, Architecture. Teaching Assistant: Corey Hoard, Digital Art and Game Design,…
Skye Moret: I am perpetually working to visualize my scientific research on marine plastic pollution in diverse and creative ways, harnessing the affordances of new software tools to present…
Interactive visualization that served as a stage background for a theater production. Motivated by the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, Columbinus is a multi-media docudrama that…
Exhibition for the Miraikan Science Museum Tokyo. Although cities cover only a small fraction of the earth, they have a tremendous impact on the world. This theme…
The collaboration with Philips Color Kinetics focuses on responsive, interactive, and public display using dynamic lighting at the architectural scale. A team of students will develop and…
What is Swiss Style and why is it useful for today’s information designers? The Swiss Style Reboot exhibition, beginning on June 1st in Boston at Northeastern University’s…
What is Swiss Style and why is it useful for today’s information designers? The Swiss Style Reboot exhibition, beginning on June 1st in Boston, presents the graphic…
