In Kate Sweetapple’s “Incidental Data,” she created an exhibit featuring multiple artists’ innovative ways of displaying data. With the huge wave of information we now have the ability to display, she questioned why everything had to be presented in such uniform, algorithmic ways. The exhibit features data presented without any graphs and charts, and instead through the use of creative or everyday objects. Some of the objects in the work are from trees, glue, and lipstick, to name a few.

Through this different medium, we can see data represented in a more exciting way. I think this fun display can transform data from something that was once boring into an exciting world of possibilities for further exploration. Also, since this data is being displayed in a less uniform way, it seems that you can avoid the mistake of oversimplifying results that don’t necessarily fit in one box.

https://cargocollective.com/katesweetapple/Incidental-Data