Making Data: Materializing Digital Information

Book Description

For many outside of the scientific community, big data and the forms it takes, such as statistical lists, spreadsheets and graphs, often seem abstract and unintelligible. This book investigates how digital fabrication and traditional making approaches are being used to present data in newly engaging and interesting ways.

The first part of the book introduces the basic premise of the data object and the concept of making digital data into a physical form. Contributors cover topics such as biometrics, new technology, the economics of data and open and community uses of data. The second part presents a selection of exemplar forms and contexts for the application of data-objects, such as smart surfaces, smart cities, augmented reality techniques and next generation technical interfaces that blend physical and digital elements.

Making Data delivers the importance and likely future prevalence of physical representations of data. It explores the creative methods, processes, theories and cultural histories of making physical representations of information and proposes that the making of data into physical objects is the next important development in the data visualisation phenomenon.

中文：

书名：制作数据：将数字信息物化

对于科学界以外的许多人来说，大数据及其形式，如统计列表、电子表格和图表，往往看起来抽象而难以理解。这本书调查了数字制造和传统制造方法是如何被用来以新的引人入胜和有趣的方式呈现数据的。

本书的第一部分介绍了数据对象的基本前提，以及将数字数据变成物理形式的概念。投稿人涵盖的主题包括生物识别、新技术、数据的经济学以及数据的开放和社区使用。第二部分介绍了数据对象应用的范例形式和环境的选择，如智能表面、智能城市、增强现实技术和融合了物理和数字元素的下一代技术界面。

将数据转化为数据提供了数据的物理表示的重要性和未来可能的流行程度。它探索了对信息进行物理表示的创造性方法、过程、理论和文化史，并提出将数据制成物理对象是数据可视化现象的下一个重要发展。