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Not all data collection has to be tedious, boring, and involve actually going out and talking to people. An interesting and effective alternative from ni9e.com, entitled skymall liberation comes inspired from what was clearly a long and boring flight. Faces are cut out from the skymall catalogue and assembled according to different criteria in order to showcase different demographic observations.
While some of these observations are questionable (I’m not sure how largely big faced people figure into skymall’s marketing) some of them are very striking (consider the white vs. non-white visualization pictured above). One interesting observation about this data collection is that here the data explicitly becomes the visualization tool - grouping and rearranging faces becomes a direct visualization of trends. If only we could do that with numbers. From ni9e.com via kotke
