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-Tangible Statistics
+===== Tangible Statistics =====
+We did some explorations on how to use a MakerBot DIY 3D Printer to make open data easier to grasp. An introduction can be found here:
+[[http://www.tamberg.org/makeopendata/2012/Tangible_Statistics_with_MakerBot.pdf]]
+Note the constraints imposed by using a MakerBot compared to using a commercial 3D printer.
+A data set and visualization from the Ville Vivante project ([[http://villevivante.ch/]]) kindly donated by [[https://twitter.com/#!/wiederkehr|@wiederkehr]] was used to explore different 3D interpretations.
+Wearable data in the form of earrings is an obvious choice, as they're quick to print (7 min in our case) and quite effective despite the cheap material (ABS plastic).
+{{http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7238/6885705550_72a847e87c_z.jpg}}
+Here's another object made from the same data, the "Commuter Statistics Egg Cup" together with an EggBot painted egg.
+{{http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7118/7031959217_b983d4cdf9_z.jpg}}
+While printing out 3D graphs would be perfectly possible, it seems more interesting to take 2D data and use the third dimension in a more creative way. In one design we rotated 2D CSV values of yearly birth numbers ([[http://od.ifi.uzh.ch/package/geburten-jahr-quartier]]) around an axis
+{{:project:transport:bender.png?640}}
+to create objects looking like chess figures. Imagine playing "birth statistics chess" or "car accident chess" with individual figures derived from the statistics of different cantons.
+{{:project:transport:img_20120331_121246.jpg?320}}
+Mashing up data and everyday objects results in a loss of information, but introduces an opportunity to think about the corresponding events, encoded in the data, while using such an object.
+Another visualization approach is using a heat-map to generate a 3D relief. The example below uses data from http://transport.opendata.ch/
+{{http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7140/6886445662_d9bf0e3639_o.png?488}}
+{{http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7136/7032541563_4a8a6e1a0a_o.png}}
+{{http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7110/6890748876_f9cb926135_z.jpg}}
+==== Source ====
+  * [[http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:20450]]
+  * [[http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:20452]]
+  * [[http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:20460]]
+  * [[http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:20617]]
+==== Team ====
+  * Remo
+  * [[http://www.cyrillc.deviantart.com/|Fabian]]
+  * [[http://www.twitter.com/tamberg|@tamberg]]
+{{tag>status:demo hardware}}