1. “Where Data and Design meet
Food?!”
Melda M. Washington
Information Culture, October 21, 2012
2. Overview
Introduction
The Open Data Cooking Workshop
Mashup Examples
Conclusion
3. Introduction
Something different that tied:
Information culture
Data
Design
Mashup?
Information aesthetics - Where form follows
data.
www.infosthetics.com
Open Data Cooking: Data Visualization that You Can Eat
4. The Open Data Cooking
Workshop
Imagine how a seafood soup would taste based on local
Baltimore fishing data
How data can relate to cooking?
2 day workshop held in Helsinki.
Pick two topics and four ingredients and find relations.
Make up a dish that could represent that subject.
Brainstorming in groups and data hunting.
5. The Open Data Cooking
Workshop
Research on the representation of data with culinary
means.
The workshop researches ways to represent local
data through the inherent qualities of food such as
color, form, texture, smell, taste, nutrition, origin etc.
Participants translate data in to a sensual culinary
experience
Participants gain insights into both media and learn
about their inner creativity, associative thinking and
imaginations.
At the end an open data menu will be created and
publicly tasted.
6. Taste of migration
The amount of food
on the plate
corresponds to the
number of people
from that nationality
who live in Finland
Each non-Finnish
nationality is
represented by a
stripe of typical food
from:
• Salmon for the
Swedish
• Rice for the Chinese.
7. Happiness Cocktail
Personalized shrimp
cocktail, representing
not only the number of
your facebook friends
Especially how many of
them are smiling on
their profile pictures.
• More rice = more
friends
• More shrimp = more
happy friends
9. Criminal herring in fur coat
Represents Finland’s crime rates for
2011in a layered Russian salad
Each layer represents one type of
crime
• Salted herrings
• Potatoes and Carrots
• Beets
• Red onion
• Eggs
• Mayonnaise
• Parsley and Dill
The Russian name is "Selyodka pod
Shouboy", that means "Herring
under fur coat".
10. Tasty Tweets
A data visualization
experiment that allows users
to explore current twitter
trends through taste.
Uses the Twitter API
Collects tweets containing
mentions of specific fruits
such as
blueberry, pineapple, apple
and carrot and creates a
smoothie that represents the
blend.
The smoothie is created
based on the same
proportions of fruits collected
from the tweets.
Because twitter trends http://player.vimeo.com/video/42973460
change quickly, each
smoothie has a unique
palette of flavors.
11. Conclusion
This information culture allows us to represent
data or information in creative and intriguing
new ways.
We are only bound by our own creativity.
