Calls of Gratitude

OSU Visual Communication Design

Spring 2025

In my Data Visualization Class, I tracked ten days of gratitude and kindness. Choosing two forms applied to myself and others, I analyzed this qualitative data by finding quantitative trends and common descriptors.

The final poster.

The Goal:

Creative Storytelling through data. Straying away from regular bar charts, graphs, and scatterplots, I wanted to explore how to tell a story through my gratitude and kindness data. Going back to the fundamentals and focusing on design principles, textures, and shape to help execute the final outcome.

First I started by defining the gratitude and kindness, then tracking my data everyday through Google forms

Process:

Raw Data extracted from Excel

I then analyzed my data and identified similarities within each day.

Then, I rough sketched potential data trends from this my summaries.

These sketches helped me narrow down my actions of calling someone were most present. This led me back to getting quantitative data from my phone logs.

Rough sketches of visualizing call logs

Production:

Inspirations and Abstractions that helped produce my final.

Sketches applying the circular form

Composition Development with the addition of outliers.