The Data Viz Collaborative
School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with Northwestern University
Summer 2013
As the faculty of record, I coordinated and co-instructed a unique eight- week course that teamed faculty from Northwestern University as well as the School of the Art Institute. Cross- enrolled, student teams from both institutions worked together to develop novel ways of communicating data sets spanning Korean family history, human eye- tracking, and school choice in the Chicago Public School Systems. The course culminated in an eight-week exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. http://www.saic.edu/academics/areasofstudy/artandscience/datavizcollaborative/
Collaboration and interdisciplinarity moved beyond the walls of SAIC in the summer 2013. Students and instructors from Northwestern University and SAIC came together for Data Viz Collaborative. Students investigated “big” data—hundreds of years of recorded Korean arranged marriage, the migration of students through Chicago Public Schools, and tracking eye moments in photography—and then produced stunning visualizations which were displayed at a culminating exhibition at the LeRoy Neiman Center.
