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2012 – Stop & Frisk: Physical Data Filtering

Chilean designer Catalina Cortázar created a physical visualization showing the proportion of black, hispanic and white people searched by the New York police in 2010. Each of the three compartments stands for a race and contains an amount of powder proportional to the race's population in New York. When the object is turned upside down, the powder falls into an adjacent compartment except for coarser particles that do not make it through the holes and represent people stopped by the police. […]

Added by: Pierre Dragicevic, sent by: Alice Thudt. Category: Passive physical visualization  Tags: new-york, physical computation, police, powder, race