VizChitra 2025: India's first community-driven Data Visualization conference

OVERVIEW
From cave paintings and memoirs to Strava activity, we love to keep a record of what we do. However, even with the immense amount of data collection that my phone does for me, I still somehow forget the smaller details of my day-to-day life. In 2024, I wanted to be able to see my life beyond the basics and focus on the newness of the everyday, even in the so-called “boring routine”.

To do so, I began by tracking my everyday highlights and habits. I also made themed charts every month to try to look at my time through different lenses - like how my schedules changed after I started working or how many times I found myself on 100ft road after moving to Indiranagar.

The proposed installation would include an artist’s book that compiles these data drawings as the final data object along with the original journal that I began taking these notes in. The compiled book would incorporate different elements of book-making to provide a tactile, interactive experience for the reader.

Work Sample - Presentation for Parallel

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Personal data to inform slower reflections
• Daily data journaling as a segue into technical data visualisation
• Different forms of analog data collection
• Crafting for data visualisation

TARGET AUDIENCE

Designers, data visualization enthusiasts, and anyone curious about combining mediums to tell a data story.

SPEAKER BIO

Rutu Tank is a product designer by profession, and design generalist by passion. She enjoys experimenting with different mediums like book-binding, crochet and collaging to spend her time and also to document it.

Currently an Associate Product Designer at Parallel HQ, previously a Product Design fellow at CivicDataLab
Graduated in 2024 with a major in Information Arts from Srishti Manipal.