Students on the Data Science for Design MSc were tasked at the course's annual Data Fair to create engaging visualisations from real world datasets. One group chose to use the University of Edinburgh's Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database (1563-1736) to create an interactive physical map of accused witches in Scotland laser cut and engraved from an A1 block of wood and creating bespoke pieces to visualise the gender distribution of accused witches in each region of Scotland and the different torture techniques employed in each region.

The map was created by:

Sumeyra Yazgan

Shanyi He

Yichun Sun

Design Informatics MSc.