A musical score and data manifested in a sketch with mostly pink and white petals on tiny stems branching out onto larger stems in an all-over composition on grey paper. Data collected on a disease is then written in swirls in a white material close to the petals in the negative spaces with red dots in various tiny sizes that are evident near each blossom.

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Bruises—The Data We Don’t See, 2018

It was designed by Giorgia Lupi and Accurat and music composed by Kaki King. It is dated 2018. Its medium is data visualization with original score, still, prepatory sketch. It is a part of the department.

This data visualization offers a holistic method for understanding the impact of a child’s illness. Musician Kaki King charted the clinical data of her daughter’s experience with the autoimmune disease idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, as well as observations of her own emotions during the terrifying 4 months after diagnosis. King and Giorgia Lupi transformed these data into a visualization that correlates the clinical and the emotional, accompanied by a “musical map.”

It is credited Courtesy of Giorgia Lupi and Kaki King.

Katagami, Blossoms and Willow
mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin....
Gift of Helen Snyder.
1976-103-25

Barrel-shaped warm brown horn box with hinged round lids encircled with gold at both ends. The left lid is open and a lighter golden brown in color, showing the translucency of the horn. The box is ringed with raised bands, alternating with flat bands. It is decorated on all surfaces with delicate gold designs of leafy scrollwork and stippled geometric patterns. A crack runs down from the left end and around the middle of the box.

Box With Two Compartments
shaped horn with gold piqué.
Gift of the Estate of Harry G. Friedman.
1966-2-13

Sidewall, Springtime
block-printed paper.
Gift of Alan Moss.
1992-156-39

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Digital image of a matrix of blue, red, yellow, green, orange and black dots arranged in an irregular plaid pattern, with mostly blue and green dots on either side of the matrix and mostly red, orange and red in its middle. A few points seem trickling away at the bottom of the matrix. There is no explanation of the significance of the different dot colors. There are more columns than rows, so the matrix appears as a wide rectangle. A legend on the left (title: Taxonomic depth) indicates that each row in the matrix represents a different type of bacteria. The legend consists of several bars next to each other (in a gradation of colors from light yellow to magenta) that show the classification of bacteria in its hierarchical subdividision. A bar next to most rows reads “Bacteria” (yellow); on its right, a light orange bar is split in “Proteobacteria”, “Actinobacteria” and others; Proteobacteria is further subdivided in the next bar (dark orange), in “Alphaproteobacteria” and “Betaproteobacteria”, and so forth. Thus the legend indicates that rows in the matrix are clustered according to the scientific classification of bacteria, so that rows next to each other represent bacteria that are more closely related on an evolutionary scale. A diagonally aligned text at the top of each column creates the illusion of depth and, although the font is very small and hardly readable, appears to indicate that each column represents a different gene product (a specific protein). Overall, the impression gained is that of a summary of genetic diversity within a sample of bacteria, organized both according to the type of bacteria (rows) and the diversity of specific metabolic functions (columns) identified within the sample. Above the matrix is a general title of the visualization: 'Thiocyanate bioreactor genome summary. High density genome summary matrix linked to a phylogenetic hierarchy'.

Metagenomic Data Visualization, 2016
videos (2), data visualization.
Courtesy Banfield Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley and Stamen....
NATURE.010

Poster, Visualize This.
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.
1993-53-119

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4wUs7b/
Accession Number NATURE.005
Object ID 2318798830