Student: David Gorelik
Course: Information Architecture 1 at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Year: 2016
Database Visualization
This assignment investigates the transformation of raw data into comprehensible information. Students gather a collection of abstract data, organize it, and translate several attributes of the data—both objective (factual) and subjective (personal)— into visual form in a printed diagram.
This student chose to present over one hundred of Batman’s antagonists. This network diagram communicates several attributes: how often they appear in comics, the type of power they possess, occupation, relationship to Batman, their morality, threat level, and the designer’s subjective assessment of the character’s design.
Imagery

Full version of the diagram, scaled.

Detail of the diagram.