You’re doing it wrong: a celebration of ‘worst’ practices
summary
A collaboration across continents builds a postal microproject called Dear Data that records one shared topic each week, weekly personal data collection, then analyzes it and hand-draws a visualization on a postcard. The experiment intentionally privileges the collection and journaling process over polished charts, calling it a wrong datais practice, and treats each postcard as a tangible souvenir. The approach scales — the project unexpectedly reaches a wide audience and proves the method works for connection and reflection.
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