Entry tags:
Tactile representations of scientific data
Some of these works sound beautiful--the stick map of ocean waves, the copper and glass map of British marine trade in the mid-20th century--and some sound a little, well, like those string maps created by conspiracy theorists in TV shows, but it's all pretty fascinating, giving material form to information.
http://dataphys.org/list/
http://dataphys.org/list/