Stefanie Posavec

I was trying to find more data I could take from Tripadvisor, as there's only a limited amount of data that's immediately available, such as the number of restaurants of each cuisine and the number of restaurants in each price bracket.
I wanted to try and work out the hierarchy of rankings of each different cuisine in Brighton, but the only way to do that was to go through the incredibly long process of noting down the ranking of every restaurant in each category of cuisine (such as #1, 6, 9 etc...)
I did this for all of the restaurants that came under the category British cuisine, and ended up with a very long list of numbers that didn't really mean anything, realising that it would take way too long to do the same for each of the different cuisine types in Brighton...


1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 25, 29, 32, 37, 42, 51, 52, 54, 57, 60, 65, 67, 77, 84, 90, 91, 96, 97, 98, 100, 102, 104, 105, 108, 110, 111, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 128, 133, 137, 140, 105, 108, 110, 111, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 128, 133, 137, 140, 142, 146, 148, 149, 150, 153, 154, 156, 158, 160, 163, 165, 169, 173, 175, 178, 201, 204, 209, 211, 214, 218, 219, 220, 222, 232, 233, 234, 235, 238, 243, 245, 246, 247, 254, 261, 264, 272, 281, 286, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 296, 301, 304, 307, 311, 316, 317, 318, 322, 326, 337, 343, 344, 347, 350, 351, 354, 356, 362, 370, 374, 377, 378, 382, 388, 389, 391, 392, 396, 399, 400, 402, 404, 407, 409, 412, 414, 415, 420, 423, 427, 428, 431, 433, 435, 436, 453, 459, 460, 461, 465, 475, 476, 478, 480, 484, 488, 492, 494, 498, 503, 508, 511, 512, 516, 518, 523, 524, 525, 526, 530, 533, 538, 548, 556, 558, 559, 565, 566, 570, 572, 578, 584, 585, 586, 587, 592, 593, 596, 604, 612, 617, 623


When I showed this long sequence of numbers to my tutor Andrew he thought it was actually interesting and worth including in my project.

I thought this was kind of relatable to the work of artist/data visualiser Stefanie Posavec, who does these amazing hand written data visualisations that are basically a load of data - letters/words and numbers - arranged in such a way as to create what can be seen as a piece of art.
She simply uses a set of highlighters and a ballpoint pen, colour coding data to create patterns and innovative data visualisations...

She's made a data visualisation of Jack Kerouac's On The Road, dividing the book up into chapters, paragraphs and sentences.

When you look at the overall image you can't tell that it's made up of words and data, or that it's handwritten and not digitally generated.