It started as a data visualisation project, and while I did perform an analysis and visualisation of the dataset in Python on my own, it ended up becoming an undertaking in storytelling. As a team, we were missing the skills and the time to produce a meaningful interactive visualisation with a dataset as complex as the one we had – a registry of 1900 satellites launched since 1975 with 17 different attributes. Therefore, we decided to go to the core of the message our professor had given us along with the dataset: a worry that someday we might not be able to see the stars in the sky.
I’m personally very proud of this project because of its provocative nature. It uses a small amount of elements, but it’s able to leave the user with a very distinct and intense feeling of nostalgia for the present and a worry of what the future might look like. Personally, I was responsible for transforming the animation my teammates made into a website that would play as the user scrolls down, and I also came up with the idea of adding some lines of poetry, which I wrote myself.
