Screenshot of a paper titled "Stitching Meaning: Practices of Data Textile Creators." Below the title is a figure showing two data textiles pieces – a colorful “book blanket” and a striped “temperature blanket.” It illustrates how textile patterns encode data and describes study focus areas on data, creator motivations, and visual encodings. Screenshot of a paper titled "Stitching Meaning: Practices of Data Textile Creators." Below the title is a figure showing two data textiles pieces – a colorful “book blanket” and a striped “temperature blanket.” It illustrates how textile patterns encode data and describes study focus areas on data, creator motivations, and visual encodings.

How do data textile creators stitch meaning into their work? 🧶 Hear from @sydneypurdue.bsky.social , Eduardo Puerta, @ebertini.bsky.social, & Melanie Tory, Thurs 11:15 - 12:30. (Rumor has it there’ll be a real piece on display 🤫)
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A long crochet scarf displayed on a dressmaker's mannequin. The scarf is striped in many colours, mainly blues, purples, and grey. There is no pattern to the stripes.

A close-up photograph of rows of crochet from a striped scarf.

A web interface showing a section of the crochet scarf, with annotations pointing to individual rows of crochet

The 480cm length of this scarf and the 15 years of grief it represents defy a thumbnail overview, but you can see it in full in my data story "A death, a dot, a datapoint": deathdotdatapoint.datais.blue #dataviz #dataphysicalization #crochet

An interesting #dataphysicalization project explores data on #abortion and the distances women must travel to receive care.

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📊Data does not necessarily have to be worked primarily via software. Physicalization is another way of showing data and here I bring and example with a piece of mine.🧶

#scicomm #dataviz #embroidery #dataphysicalization