Visualization

For our visualization we decided to map out our groups communication over the course of one weekend. We set out to show a visualization of the globalization of communication through calls, sms and Facebook interactions.
We collected our data by drawing up a table in Excel and documenting locations, sent and received, time, am or pm, and form of communication.

Table of communications

From our data we were able to show the reach of our communications which span right across Sydney and even to other countries. Our tables returned a lot of data so our visualization is quite packed, however we feel this is beneficial as it shows just how much communication takes place over a single weekend and from only three people. If we times this data, maybe as an average, for the entire population of Sydney, which is around 2 million, we can see just how much communication takes place over a weekend.

Visualization

For my indidual analysis, I looked at which ways our visualization pre-exists our making it visual and what publics it intervenes in. This data does pre-exist our making it visual in the sense of possibly archived data. The data exists in some form in some archive wether it be Facebook archives, apple archives or carrier archives. However, this visualisation presents completely new data, it is the data of our communications over a weekend so, in essence, this particular data, our visualisation, could not preexist anywhere, only here. As was explained earlier by Rachel, we tabled our own data in order to visualise it, so there are actually levels of creation which took place to make our final product. So, the actual data which makes up our visualisation exists outside of it while also within the data of our visualisation.

Our visualisation intervenes in the telecommunications public. So by portraying links between connectivity we are allowing for patterns to form and show our reach over sydney through sms and calls. We are visualising what is in essence an invisible public, that of telecommunications. It is this which relates back to us 'creating' this new form of data and allows us to view what is largely contained as code. Also, we are intervening in social publics. What I mean by this is, the data we collected took place over a weekend, so friday Saturday night when we were in social situations and engaging with others through communications and due to this our data intervenes in that public sphere to.