The first months of a baby's life compiled in infographics

• Clara Dealberto and Jules Grandin, two graphic designers, had a daughter at the start of confinement.
• On social networks, young parents publish infographic, touching and hilarious, which recount these first months of their baby's life.
• Their graphics also give rise to debates and reflections on parenting, and the delicate art of data visualization.

They lived happily and had many children. Ok, but in statistical terms, what does this story look like. Clara Dealberto and Jules Grandin, two graphic designers and cartographers, had a baby at the start of the coronavirus epidemic (no causal link) and decided to tell the first months of their child's life ... in infographics.

"We thought about it during pregnancy, we even found the name of the project, Little Big Data," says the father. And it's true that with confinement, we felt alone with this event, and we were a little bored. So the project also became a platform for discussion and advice. For the past two months, Clara Dealberto and Jules Grandin have published one graph per day on Instagram and Twitter accounts created for the occasion. “Basically, we were making these graphics for family Whatsapp groups, to manage the grandparents' frustration at not seeing the baby. But very quickly it became a project for social networks. "

🚗 Figure 48 - Father's index of confidence and frustration rate during the first installation of the car seat pic.twitter.com/Eq2nt94yuZ

What is it really about? The titles of the numbered “figures” (55 to date) can also be very poetic and coldly analytical: “Evolution of the love brought to the changing table, in rate of kiff over the first two months”, “Rate of frustration of the grandparents since birth and the beginning of confinement "," Evolution of the temperature of the bath while it is being run "," Evolution of the rate of parental anxiety as a function of the intensity of the noise in the no eye contact with the baby ”… The common point of these infographics is to be touching and often hilarious.

A unique database

“Before birth, we thought about it as a journalist. We said to ourselves that we should record a lot of data to have a reliable base. We didn't know that, in any case, all the parents were already doing it with the time of breastfeeding or bottles… ”, says the mother. “So we have real and quantifiable data but also more eccentric data such as the intensity of shouts or the rate of happiness… Anyway, we work with a unique database. "

🙂 Figure 47 - Share of social or physical smiles out of a hundred documented smiles for a day D pic.twitter.com/Pli3s03tpR

Unique, but a little universal too if we rely on the many comments and feedback that the project generates. “We are very happy that it can speak to as many people as possible and we are watching over it. For example, our child does not have a name in the project, we use the pronoun "on" to name it, "explains the father. "We are divided between doing something on our daughter, to keep a memory, and identifying situations, joys, wonders, problems that almost all young parents can meet, explains the mother. You still have to realize that we are not talking about ALL babies. "

Infographic debate

Certain infographics thus touched on a sensitive point and aroused more vehement comments: those on the use of the pacifier, or worse, those on breastfeeding. “We decided to breastfeed but in the end, we came to bottle soon enough, explains Clara Dealberto. It's a personal decision, we don't campaign for that. We knew it was going to spark debate and headaches so we made an infographic "Multifactorial evolution of breastfeeding towards the bottle, followed over seven days". It was kind of our answer. "

🍼 Figure 19 - Multifactorial evolution of breastfeeding towards the bottle, followed over seven days pic.twitter.com/xz3dDqmLsD

With its pastel shades and the humor that always comes to nestle at the turn of an abscissa or an ordinate, Little Big Data thus recounts the great and small pleasures of parenthood without avoiding the galleys, discouragements, anxieties…

Projection question

Just as the child will grow, the parents will ask themselves the question of the future of their other baby. “For the moment, as long as we keep standing and we don't get tired, we continue on the rhythm of a graph per day. And for now it remains on social networks. But of course who if we have a proposal to make a book, we will think about it. It seems that Steven Spielberg is interested in adapting it into a film… ”

More seriously, this project is also for these two graphic designers working in the press, the opportunity to “have fun on the forms. In our jobs, we don't always have complete freedom on all subjects, in particular because we have to deal with heavy topical subjects. There, we are masters of what we produce, we can take any form we want. We also want to show that we can tell everything in infographics. "

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