Mona Chalabi's 100 New Yorkers: Data art

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 I've been a fan of Chalabi's work for years (here is my favorite example of mean vs. median). She makes beautiful, hand-drawn data visualizations.

She created a beautiful mural that represents New Yorkers. And when I say "represents," I mean that this image is a representative sample of New Yorkers.

https://monachalabi.com/product/100-new-yorkers/

Her sample of 100 New Yorkers was not drawn (Drawn? Get it?) at random.  Below, in her own words, Chalabi describes her work and what it means:

https://www.absolutart.com/us/artist/mona-chalabi/artwork/100-new-yorkers-ii/

This is a novel way to talk about sampling, and representative samples, weighing survey response options to make a sample more representative, etc. You could even get into sampling error and other problems created by non-representative samples. 










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