Tidal Falls Tide Chart

However, the chart as we understand it today in a statistical sense—a tool for visualizing quantitative, non-spatial data—is a much more recent innovation, a product of the Enlightenment's fervor for reason, measurement, and empirical analysis. It’s a funny thing, the concept of a "design idea. This was the part I once would have called restrictive, but now I saw it as an act of protection. I was working on a branding project for a fictional coffee company, and after three days of getting absolutely nowhere, my professor sat down with me. The catalog becomes a fluid, contextual, and multi-sensory service, a layer of information and possibility that is seamlessly integrated into our lives. For a year, the two women, living on opposite sides of the Atlantic, collected personal data about their own lives each week—data about the number of times they laughed, the doors they walked through, the compliments they gave or received.