I took the first 7 years of budget data for the Textile Makerspace I run (Organizational Data) and knit it into a sweater. The years are divided by a black line. A full circumference around the body in bright red represents $2000. The sleeves represent paid student labor, with each student’s hours for the year in brown. The sleeves are color-coded by pronouns on the left (purple = they/them, red = she/her, blue = he/him) and academic unit on the right (red = engineering, purple = humanities, maroon = high school, blue = design school).
I took an existing sweater pattern and tried to use proportions to work out even-sized stripes across the body. Instead, I did the math wrong for how many rows there would need to be for a reasonably-sized sweater, and the first try was far too long. I cut that portion of the sweater off and re-knit it without as much of the “no money” filler maroon color.