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<P STYLE="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nowadays almost everything we do gets registered and/or quantified in some way. There are more ways to track yourself or your surroundings as sensors and data storage are becoming more and more ubiquitous.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Data visualization can be a modern form of visual communication, mixing various fields like computer science, design, creative writing... even statistics. Both an art and a science, data viz has the potential to be a powerful tool in decision making and planning by communicating information clearly and efficiently. Effective visualizations helps users analyze and discover meaning and correlations in data, sometimes hidden within rows and columns of text and numbers. <SPAN ID="docs-internal-guid-3edc4f65-0576-bc02-16fe-3c9aff2c7f7f"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It makes complex data more accessible, understandable and usable to an audience, creating infographics to go much further than tables and charts. </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN ID="docs-internal-guid-3edc4f65-0139-9ebd-ae72-4477e325201c"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the course of two evenings, this Intro to Data visualization workshop series walks through the process of investigating a large set of data entries, parsing it, and projecting the data onto a world map. Its a great introduction to the Processing programming language. Youll learn handy tips about scaling and polishing up the visuals using Illustrator, making this class perfect for anyone interested in design, data, geometry, or minimalism. It will give you the first push to follow your curiosity and find stories inside t</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.6em;">he data surrounding us every day. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.6em;">Learn by making your own visualizations with an experienced designer and coder. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.6em;">Please bring your own laptop.</SPAN></P>
<P>For ages 15+ and Adults</P>
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