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Every time you send a text, call a friend, fill out a form, hail a taxi, stream a movie, surf the web, pay a bill, buy groceries, buy anything, take your temperature, count your steps, swipe right (or left), you generate data. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's data in the weather, in the air, in the ground, in outer space. If you own a smartwatch, you carry data on your body. If you have a cardiac pacemaker, you carry data in your body. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSo, what is data, really?\u003c\/strong\u003e It's a question that is surprisingly hard to answer. To some, data means numbers: figures on a screen, dots on a graph. It's also often (falsely) equated with facts, an invariable form of concrete knowledge that always tells the truth. But in reality, data is hardly so incontrovertible. \u003cstrong\u003eData is an abstraction of reality, a useful but imperfect representation of real life.\u003c\/strong\u003e Like life, it's full of nuance, imprecision, and ambivalence. It's quantitative and it's qualitative. And it's made by us--humans. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are some of the ideas that information designers\u003cstrong\u003e Giorgia Lupi \u003c\/strong\u003eand\u003cstrong\u003e Phillip Cox\u003c\/strong\u003e explore in their fascinating new book \u003ci\u003eSpeak Data: Artists, Scientists, Thinkers, and Dreamers on How We Live Our Lives in Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpeak Data\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e invites us to see data differently\u003c\/strong\u003e--not just as numbers on a chart, but as a way to understand and communicate who we are, how we connect, and how we make sense of the world. 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