Data visceralization goes beyond mortality statistics to help people grieve.
As Stark notes, data visceralization “relies on multiple senses including touch, smell, and even taste, working together to stimulate our feelings as well as our thoughts.”makes evident, people working in astronomy, biomedicine, and engineering are transforming vast datasets into sound that is beautiful and can advance understanding. Sonification is just one way of offering information to the body.
What if data visceralization can return our sense of the scale of Covid losses to our bodies, so that we can move out of mathematical sublime and toward embracing the reality of so much loss and taking the time to mourn and understand? Can visceralization help us recover from the numbing and desensitization created by a two-year flood of overwhelming numbers?
A few early memorializing efforts presented the mortality counts in embodied forms, even if they haven’t been called data visceralization by their creators. The community-createdin London not only enabled family members to memorialize their loved ones, but also asks visitors to walk the 5 to 10 minute long stretch of the wall to take in the entire piece. Rather than use a quantitative tool to comprehend the dead, visitors experience the scale of death in terms of their own time and energies.
Data visceralization need not be large to be effective. Brian Foo, for example, uses a variety of economic, racial, and geographic information in his compositions.takes listeners for a ride on the 2 train and through the geographic stratification of median household incomes along the route.
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