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[[File:Homeless Youth in America Infographic.png|thumb|right|Inspiration for our Today I Learned: Infographics class on June 8, 2013. Infographics such as this one help inspire positive social change.]]
[[File:Infographics at SudoRoom.JPG|thumb|right|SudoRoom thoughts become action through pictures]]


= Overview =  
= Overview =  


Learn to take complex data and condense information into powerful graphics that spur action resulting in positive economic and social change.  
* Learn to take complex data and condense information into powerful graphics that communicate, '''spur action''' resulting in positive economic and social change.  


Leave the session with a flyer, a powerpoint slide or a web graphic.  
* Take data from data.gov and create a 3D Printed model inspired by http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/doku.php?id=project:transport:tangiblestatistics


We'll review examples from the famous Tufte Book Visualizing Information. We'll also work with SudoRoom resident mathematicians to show how powerfully data can be visualized and change the course of events. We'll also learn from lessons made by famous comic book artists such as R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, matt Groenig and Lynda Barry.
We'll review examples from the famous Tufte Book Visualizing Information. We'll also work with SudoRoom resident mathematicians to show how powerfully data can be visualized and change the course of events. We'll also learn from lessons made by famous comic book artists such as R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, matt Groenig and Lynda Barry.


= Tools =
= Open Source Tools =


SudoRoom is an open-source space. We use open-source tools. This class will also focus on people learning how to conceptualize the graphics on pen and paper first instead of relying on a fly-by-night internet start-up that does all the work for them.  
SudoRoom is an open-source space.  


= Suggestions =
We use open-source tools.


Please list suggestions for the class here.
Focus will be on sketching infographics on pen and paper instead of focusing too much on an internet start-up that preassembles infographics for you.
 
Drawing will also enable you to escape the smart-art cliches found in most powerpoint presentations.
 
Good open source software:
 
* OpenOffice.org
* Inkscape
 
= Source Data =
 
Possible source data to work with
 
== Sources from SudoRoom & the Public School ==
 
We are all smart, opinionated people working towards positive social change. We'd love to draw as many interesting people with smart opinions as possible.
 
* [[User:Maximilianklein]] Sex ratios in Wikidata, wikipedia & the VIAF -http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2877
*  [[3DPrinting]] Documentation
* [[Community Democracy Project]] possibly Troy?
 
== Around the net ==
* Ryan K Fishman Portfolio http://www.behance.net/gallery/Homeless-Youth-Infographic/1154207
 
[[File:Incarceration_of_Homeless_Youth.png|500px|Incarceration of homeless youth graphic]]

Latest revision as of 18:54, 4 June 2013

SudoRoom thoughts become action through pictures

Overview

  • Learn to take complex data and condense information into powerful graphics that communicate, spur action resulting in positive economic and social change.

We'll review examples from the famous Tufte Book Visualizing Information. We'll also work with SudoRoom resident mathematicians to show how powerfully data can be visualized and change the course of events. We'll also learn from lessons made by famous comic book artists such as R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, matt Groenig and Lynda Barry.

Open Source Tools

SudoRoom is an open-source space.

We use open-source tools.

Focus will be on sketching infographics on pen and paper instead of focusing too much on an internet start-up that preassembles infographics for you.

Drawing will also enable you to escape the smart-art cliches found in most powerpoint presentations.

Good open source software:

  • OpenOffice.org
  • Inkscape

Source Data

Possible source data to work with

Sources from SudoRoom & the Public School

We are all smart, opinionated people working towards positive social change. We'd love to draw as many interesting people with smart opinions as possible.

Around the net

Incarceration of homeless youth graphic

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