{"id":6729,"date":"2023-10-10T03:43:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T03:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/?p=6729"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:27:47","slug":"michaela-large-assignment-project-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/2023\/10\/10\/michaela-large-assignment-project-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Michaela \u2013 Large Assignment Project 03"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Data Physicalization<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Dataset<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I chose my dataset from the CDC Website in regards to Covid19. I did not necessarily wanted to be focused on death, but that was the first dataset I came across and so I stuck with it. It had very interesting data. Not only based on Covid19, but also on pneumonia and other illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can be found HERE<\/u><\/font><\/a> (https:\/\/data.cdc.gov\/NCHS\/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex-and-Age\/9bhg-hcku). I thought it was interesting that CDC kept the number of views (at 4.04 Million) and number of downloads (436K).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Collage of final 3D Prints<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Design Process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I really enjoyed playing around with the different data and sorting it on different criteria. I had trouble figuring out how to make the shape, because I did not realize that there were empty fields (the data had more than 13K rows), so I ended up selecting much smaller scale (not individual states by age, but all ages all together).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I played around with the different fields and finally settled on 3 different criteria:
– Total Deaths of Covid19
– Total Deaths all together
– Total Deaths of Pneumonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was neat to see how different criteria produced different objects. Although, quite similar in outline shape, the final 3D prints were interesting to see and quite unique to look at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I came across quite a few issues during my process on not only on the computational side. At first I had to figure out that the data was so large that I had to divide the entire set by 600 – 1200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I had several issues with my printer. As I am not home most of the time, I would set my printer to print and when I came back the prints were disastrous. My printer got stuck on one spot two different times and created a little crater. I am quite glad it did not set my house on fire. Not sure if it could. I sure hope not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had to reset my bed leveling a few times, because for some reason, my magnetic top has warped somewhat and was causing me weird prints with missing parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I had to switch my data completely, because my dataset had such large inequalities, that the print itself would collapse on itself and when I tried to do support beams, it just covered the entire thing…. so in the end I switched my Total set by State to the Set on Pneumonia deaths instead. The results were not quite as beautiful, but unfortunately I run out of time.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Bad Prints<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Printing Process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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First Fail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Printer got stuck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

And it happened more than once:<\/p>\n\n\n

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What a bummer!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Final Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I enjoyed this project, and it was very interesting to see the physicalization of the data. I wish I could have made more dramatic shapes, but I stuck with simpler design for the time-constraint purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the future I wish to make the map of mountains for my friends in Colorado, who live in the wilderness and I bet they would enjoy it as a Christmas gift. Thanks for the idea!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rhino & Grasshopper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Future Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Files<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My Grasshopper File can be found HERE<\/u><\/font><\/a>
(https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/MichaelaUrichLA3.gh)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dataset I chose my dataset from the CDC Website in regards to Covid19. I did not necessarily wanted to be focused on death, but that was the first dataset I came across and so I stuck with it. It had very interesting data. Not only based on Covid19, but also on pneumonia and other illnesses. It can be found HERE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data_phys_23","category-studentwork23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6729"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7028,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions\/7028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}