Data Art
Some people look at data art as a challenge to do the most original, visually interesting, arresting piece of art that somehow corresponds to a data set. Thats fine… But it’s the line of thinking that gave us all those 3D charts in old versions of Excel and chartjunk galore.
The other way of looking at it can get you to a different place - how do you make 'art' that actually represents the data? I think some of the best data art boils down to a straightforward bar chart, and this is no exception…