In the artworks mentioned in the article data, often times unorganized, meaningless, or unknown to the viewer is the raw material of which they are made. Lev Manovich is quoted as saying “By allowing us to map anything into anything else … computer media simultaneously makes all these choices appear arbitrary – unless the artist uses special strategies to motivate her or his choices.” To me it appeared that certain artists used data in a well thought-out way, often times providing explanation of the set of data, whereas others used it purely as a raw material as a means to arrive at an end result, with the artwork having no clear or traceable connection back to the data. These artists purposely remove the information aspect of data and simply use it as a tool to sculpt into an artwork. The data is neutralized to only serve a visual purpose and not to represent any of the information it stores. This separation of data and its information results in an entirely visual take on the data, which becomes completely subjective to the artist and eventually the viewer.