50 years (1951-2000) of Mumbai Weather data


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Creator/Artist: Baisampayan Saha

Category: Product Design

Document: Design Research

Batch: 2013-2015

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Venkatesh Rajamanickam


Detailed Description

When a large data set is presented in front of us, it does not make any sense to us until and unless we start doing number crunching. If the data is represented in some form of chart or diagram, we can probably figure something out. Though the project “50 Years of Mumbai Weather“ is not about data visualization,  it deals with the notion of data art. The weather data is taken up and woven into the fabric of a narration that, for each viewer, gives an understanding of its own. Each viewer could come to an altogether different conclusion about the diagrams shown in front of them, and their conclusions would be equally correct as the underlying principles of generating each diagram from the data set are kept exactly the same. An attempt is made to generate such diagrams from the weather data of Mumbai for each month of the year. When someone views all the diagrams together, a form of story emerges from the data embedded inside the diagrams.