This freshman seminar was inspired by the year-long drawing project between Giorgia Lupi and Stafanie Posavec, two award-winning information designers. Each week, they collected data about their lives and translated them into a hand-drawn visualization that they mailed to each other. They discovered that their personal documentary helped them slow down and appreciate the small details in their lives and to connect with others on a deeper level.
In this seminar, students read Lupi and Posavec’s book of 104 postcards and carried out their own data collection and drawing.Hopefully, the Dear Data project helped students see the world with a new appreciation where anything can be a creative starting point.
Course Instructor: Deborah Nolan
Deborah (Deb) Nolan is a Professor of Statistics and the outgoing Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, where she holds the Zaffaroni Family Chair in Undergraduate Education. Her research has involved the empirical process, high-dimensional modeling, and, more recently, technology in education and reproducible research.
Contributing Students
- Arda Akman
- Claire Yoonjee Lee
- Deepta Jasthi
- Ergun Acikoz
- Holly Elizabeth Werner
- Isaac Schultz
- James Eric Meyer
- Jierui Xu
- Jordan Justine Schwartz
- Kate Alexandra Colvin
- Kyra Diane Golightly
- Michael Hyungwook Kim
- Samiha Singh
- Sanjana Kotha
- Tess U-Vongcharoen
- Zaina Shaik