“The Needy Garden stems from one of my long-held enquiries about human relationships: We sometimes sacrifice opportunities for genuine connection for wanting to appear ‘cool’, unfazed, don’t show all your cards, don’t come off as needy or try too hard.

So using data of my messages with my closest loved ones, I looked for signs and times where we did reach out, show that we were ‘needy’, displayed affection freely – creating a beautiful, messy, complex garden of all our human emotions in all its glory.”

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Bob Ross Garden

“I used open source data that I found online, which covers all of the paintings that Bob Ross created over 31 seasons of his TV show.

I was really interested in combining his traditional art style with something more computer-driven, so I created a series of paintings, and using the dataset I created a timeline of those paintings.”

Chelsea

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Lockdown Listening

“My data garden is called Lockdown Listening, inspired by the lockdowns in Naarm during the pandemic and the music I listened to during the time.

Each flower represents a song I listened to, and the petals the amount of times I played it. I’m so happy with what I managed to achieve.”

Kelly

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Fire Garden

“My project is about the Australian Black Summer Bushfires between 2019 and 2020. I was inspired by a Refik Anadol installation at the NGV Triennial titled Quantum Memories. I think it was really impressive that not only was it visually stunning but it also had data and meaning behind it.”

Lily

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Race Against Time

Race against time is my representation of the fast paced lives that we live in. The dataset is 6 months of data collected from my grocery delivery app called Blinkit. Each element on the canvas narrates a story. At first glance I want you to focus on the calm and serene night time. Click anywhere on the screen to hear the sound of the waves. Now hover over each element on the canvas to discover the data story.

Arshi

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