This project really excites me – News Knitter is a data visualization project which focuses on knitted garments as an alternative medium to visualize large scale data.
News Knitter converts information gathered from the daily political news into clothing. Live news fed from the Internet that is broadcasted within 24 hours or a particular period is analyzed, filtered and converted into a unique visual pattern for a knitted sweater. The system consists of two different types of software: whereas one receives the content from live feeds the other converts it into visual patterns, and a fully computerized flat knitting machine produces the final output. Each product, sweater of News Knitter is an evidence/result of a specific day or period.
There is also an exhibition of ten unique sweaters produced as sample outputs.
For more information visit:
http://casualdata.com/newsknitter/