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Artisanal Data on the Web: Using JS and Data to...

Artisanal Data on the Web: Using JS and Data to Get Literary 21st Century Style

Sarah Groff-Palermo cares a lot about putting art on the web, and in this short but sweet presentation from Forward JS she’ll bring together data, JavaScript, and literary techniques to paint a picture of art in the 21st century.

NewCircle Training

July 25, 2014
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  1. L I T E R A RY DATA O N

    T H E W E B SA R A H G R O F F - PA L E R M O
  2. *

  3. Why undertake data art? 1. Understand ourselves 2. Understand the

    systems to which we are subject and to which we subject others
  4. Why undertake data art? 1. Understand ourselves 2. Understand the

    systems to which we are subject and to which we subject others 3. Expand our horizons (data-ly)
  5. Why undertake data art? 1. Understand ourselves 2. Understand the

    systems to which we are subject and to which we subject others 3. Expand our horizons (data-ly) 4. Because it is fun
  6. ! U N D E R S TA N D

    I N G O U R S E LV ES
  7. S o u r c e : D av i

    d M i c h a e l C h a n d l e r, D a i l y D o o d l e
  8. ! U N D E R S TA N D

    I N G SYS T E M S
  9. ! E X PA N D O U R H

    O R I ZO N S ( DATA- LY )
  10. A RT I SA N A L DATA S M

    A L L F R AG M E N T E D I N C O M P L E T E
  11. F I R ST C H A P T E

    R S , S T E FA N I E P O SAV EC
  12. F I R ST C H A P T E

    R S , S T E FA N I E P O SAV EC
  13. F I R ST C H A P T E

    R S , S T E FA N I E P O SAV EC
  14. F I R ST C H A P T E

    R S , S T E FA N I E P O SAV EC
  15. DAY I N T H E L I F E

    , C H R I S W H O N G
  16. Q U A N T I F I E D

    B R E A K U P, L A M T H U Y VO
  17. T I M E L I N E O F

    N EG L ECT , M E
  18. Who speaks? Who speaks to whom? Who speaks when? Who

    speaks what language? Who speaks with what authority? Who sees?
  19. Literature is a paradoxical institution because to create literature is

    to write according to existing formulas … but is also to flout those conventions, to go beyond them. … [It] is an institution that lives by exposing and criticizing its own limits, by testing what will happen if one writes differently.
  20. Croissant designed by Joe Harrison from the Noun Project Bread

    designed by Aneeque Ahmed from the Noun Project
  21. PATATA P , J O N O B R 1

    + LU L L ATO N E
  22. PAT E N T G E N E R AT

    O R SA M L EV I N E
  23. DAV I D E B O N A Z Z

    I F O R C O LU M B I A M AG A Z I N E
  24. What do you love that has nothing to do with

    tech? What system has assumptions you want to explore?
  25. Can you remake something beautiful driven by data? S I

    LV E R P R I N T , B I N G W R I G H T
  26. Process 1. Sketch 2. Gather your data 3. Test your

    data, fail, test it again, change your sketch to something that will work
  27. Process 1. Sketch 2. Gather your data 3. Test your

    data, fail, test it again, change your sketch to something that will work 4. Make it work. Show other people and see if it resonates.
  28. D 3 . J S I N AC T I

    O N E L I J A H M E E K S I N T E R AC T I V E DATA V I S UA L I Z AT I O N S C OT T M U R R AY + I R E N E R O S S H I R L EY W U G R AY A R E A
  29. @ S U P E R S G P |

    SA R A H G P.C O M ! T H A N K YO U