super sprinkle donut

data visualization/ web Design

ABOUT

This project is an interactive data visualization of a day in my life celebrating the daily interactions I have with the people around me.

As an extrovert, people are the spark of my life, and I noticed that these small everyday interactions always make me happy. Despite this, I realized I often overlooked these interactions and took them for granted. With this data visualization, I hope to pay tribute to the people in my life and also spark a little reflection and sentimentality for any viewer. Who are the people in your life that spark joy?


Supervising Professor

Holly Quarzo

Year of Completion

2023

THE SPARK

No matter how crappy my day sometimes was, after every interaction, I noticed I almost always felt a surge of positive emotion. I therefore sorted my interactions by the emotion they prompted. I also logged if I had initiated the conversation. In total for the month, I had 344 interactions with 42 separate people.

PROCESS

For the visual inspiration, I wanted to draw from 90’s-style arcade games, in particular the original Mario games. Mario games have an endearing and nostalgic quality to them, and I leaned into it when possible because it aligned with the same feelings of sentimentality my data intends to portray.

Discover the Data Set.

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