Noticing as Visualization Practice: Discovering Data in the Everyday
We introduce noticing as a creative methodology for visualization design, cultivating perceptual sensitivity to the subtle encodings in everyday phenomena. Natural and human-made elements—shapes, textures, sounds, and transformations—carry latent data mappings that, when attended to with curiosity, reveal hidden data stories. This methodology redefines what counts as data, extending beyond structured sources to embrace the inherent information in our surroundings. Rather than imposing external structures, noticing foregrounds the world’s intrinsic ways of organizing and presenting information, inspiring novel metaphors, supporting embodied data experiences, and fostering more critical and creative relationships with information.
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