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Step 1.  Review Each Person's Humanizing Data Data Diary 

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Step 1.  Review Each Person's Humanizing Data Data Diary 

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The link for each Data Diary is posted under each colleague's name. You will review the three Wakelets that follow your name. If you are last, you will start with the first three in the horizontal list. Click the plus sign and respond to step 3 & 4 making one post for step 2 and one post for step 3.

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Step 2.  Formulate a response to each colleague's metaphor. 

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Step 2.  Formulate a response to each colleague's metaphor. 

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Each of us were asked to come up with a metaphor for how we each think about data. Connect three of your colleague's metaphors. Respond by adding a comment into their column.

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Step 3.  React to your colleague's humanizing data reflections.  Appreciate, Question, Agree With them. 

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Step 3.  React to your colleague's humanizing data reflections.  Appreciate, Question, Agree With them. 

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Each of us were asked to humanize data in some way.  Make a connection with three of your colleague's humanizing data example.  What did you appreciate and why OR what were you puzzled by and why?

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How charts, tables, and graphs often obscure the reality of life.

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I really love your metaphor of data as a mirror - reflections come from particular light sources, angles, and are perceived differently from various viewpoints! It captures the subtle relationship between reality and its representation!

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When I read about your pebble metaphore, I was struck by the connection of data is natural.

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The storyboard about the medication complx is very powerful - I do have a lot personal connections to the story of John. And yes, it is not just about the waiting time and uncertainty; it is people's lived experiences and the haunting fear that we are faced with.

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First and foremost, I would like to thank you for demonstrating how to put a photo, its caption, and explanation together on a Wakelet card! I actually made a copy of your collection and then figured out how the words and images were put together. Thank you, thank you, and thank you!!!! :)

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I really liked how much information and research was put into this. There are so many data sets to chose from and they all cover the topic of humanizing data perfectly.

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The mirror metaphore strikes me as a good metaphore. Mirrors transform 3D to 2D removing detail, reverse everything distorting reality,  and  mirrors only capture a small bit of life and the world.

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The mirror metaphore strikes me as a good metaphore. Mirrors transform 3D to 2D removing detail, reverse everything distorting reality,  and  mirrors only capture a small bit of life and the world.

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I enjoyed the cost/benefits analysis here. The more one understands the underlying math the harder it is to be fooled by misrepresentations. At the same time, one might argue that by looking at objects and shadows one actually sees more than staring directly at the Sun of pure mathematical abstraction.

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I love the infographics you created about the benefits and cost of humanizing data. And all the infographics, visuals, and links you have in the collection. It is a friendly and throught-provoking reading experience.

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I am amazed by how much can be learned from the metaphoe of shadow for data. I ma pleased we could discuss it.

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I really liked how the simplistic graphs showing how many people had died was shown first just to give us an idea of the topic at hand, but then further down to image of the quilt memorial took the image we already had in our heads, and made it so much more real. The order in which these were presenting helped drive the point home.

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Reading your reflections and connections was like reading a connected story that deepened toward application as I moved forward to the end.  The connection to the homelessness theme was a brilliant way to connect up humanizing the data.

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I really appreciated your focusing on the HIV/AIDS pandemic in this diary on humanizing data. Your audience could see how the data of this historical event are manifested and represented from different perspectives and how they impact the audience's response.

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I really connected with your point on how storytelling helps humanize data and give perspective. I also mentioned this in a way through one of my humanized data examples from the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project - they show client's stories instead of just giving a number. I also liked how you mentioned, that though numbers are precise, it misses important nuances of unique experiences.

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The exploration of what the mirror is reflecting felt particularly insightful, noting the constraint of its direction of facing and that what it is reflecting does not need to be in physical space. I think that non-overly-literal approach to the metaphor allows it to capture quite a bit more nuance.

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I really liked the costs of humanization section here. Personally I would find it much easier to add a lot of benefits and then tone it down for the costs, however, here the costs section is just as long if not longer than the benefits section.

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I am truly surprised by your metaphor in an inspiring way! What can we do with the surplus value? How is the surplus value being used by others? Those are really important ethical issues we need to think about.

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I grew up learning about the AIDS quilt. However, I never would have thought of it as humanizing data. Thank you for bringing that perspective to it! It's an interesting example because it's deeply artistic, and it involved both the method of spotlighting individual people's stories within the data AND representing sheer size.

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I appreciate the mirror metaphor --it has a long history as a description of mediated experience, whether through an abstraction like a dataset, or any other medium. To be able to grasp some human experiences through more direct media than numbers is of great value --at the same time, there is a sense in which the light that illuminates the mirror, showing us what is reflected, can also distort our view. So numbers do some work providing clarity in illumination.

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The Quilt is both deeply humanizing and flawed (in terms of data representation)

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The Quilt is both deeply humanizing and flawed (in terms of data representation)

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This really made me think about who is and isn't represented in this example of humanization. People who have a square had to have a friend or family member who was willing and able to make a square, and who was connected enough to community or the news to have heard about it. As you said, over time a greater effort was made to include stories from outside of the US, however it is still deeply skewed in that direction.

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The attention to the creative elements of data was a new insight to me. That part of the metaphor really highlighted the influence of human agency rather than treating data as something to be solely mechanically processed.

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Thank you for bringing up the point that when humanizing data, it is also important to look at the whole entire process of interacting with data. I was thinking a lot about the message but you bring up a good point - it is also about data collection and analysis!!

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The metaphor you have chosen is a very interesting metaphor and very well explained. I especially appreciate your description that "The complexity of your 3-dimensional surface is flattened into just 2 dimensions" in both shadows and data.

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I think the shadow metaphor is a really powerful one - it touches on the ambiguity, distortion, and invisibility that are all characteristic of data. And thinking about how we play with the shadows of ourselves and others - there is tons to discover from those human interactions.

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Your data diary is a power description of the abstraction and commodification of human experience. The sea of numbers drowns, blocks and obscures human experience --moving in the direction of commodifying the human, instead of humanizing an over-commodified society. Still, how can we understand and organize the world we interact with one another as humans in, if not with some method of accounting?
A deep spur to thought.

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I LOVE and agree with your metaphor of a mirror. It shows a reflection of you, but is that reflection really "you"? It can be distorted, it can be backward...It's also interesting because many people would say that a reflection is showing truth (ie what you look like). But as we know, data is not reality...!

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This is such a great example of humanizing data, about such an important topic. I love that it depicts multiple methods of humanizing data. First, it helps readers understand exactly how big 5,000 really is. Second, it highlights specific stories of individuals within that data set. Thank you for your thoughtful reflections, too. I learned a lot!