'Slice of Life' 
data badges
Personal Project
This was a proof-of-concept exercise that started with a question: What's your perfect slice? The project was inspired by several of Giorgia Lupi's projects, where she designed badges for conference attendees using their unique answers to questions to create wearable buttons that might spark conversations between strangers.
My 8th grader and I applied the same playful spirit to create personal data portraits for a classroom of middle schoolers. First, the 8th graders were asked about toppings, crust style, sauce-to-cheese ratio. Next, each answer was pictorially encoded and R/RStudio pulled everything together to create individualized pizza portraits, each one as unique as the person and pizza order behind it!

TOOLS
Google survey
Adobe Illustrator
R/RStudio

DATA
Survey of Duke School 8th graders, 2026
Survey on "What's your perfect slide?" in informal font with pictoral key for answer categories. Four buttons show survey results for individuals, for example: thick white square line (Detroit-style crust) on top of a green background (veggie) with an olive and pineapple (favorite toppings) and yellow dots (denoting the level of cheese preference).
Process photos showing componets for creating buttons, including sketches of cheese key, code generated output of badges, and physical button.
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