Data visualisation has become a natural companion for journalists reporting complex data stories in both print and in digital formats. But visual cues are just one of many possible ways to encode data, and humans have been embedding data into the properties of physical objects for millennia (think of the Peruvian quipus). Despite this ancient history, the term ‘data physicalisation’ has only just appeared in academic literature quite recently, in a 2015 paper by Yvonne Jansen, Pierre Drag...
