This dataset documents results of the academic workshop "Data as a Material for Design: Alternative Narratives, Divergent Pathways, and Future Directions" co-located and hosted with the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Hamburg, Germany from April 23-28, 2023. In the dataset, we have collected the mapping of examples of data in design research and practice in the spectrum of "conventional" and "evocative", which was realized pre-workshop in an asynchronous manner. The second item in the dataset is visual combination of all workshop posters that were created during the workshop on the different tables. Finally, participants in the workshop worked on designing data-inspired artifacts and presented them in the last part of the workshop (recorded in a video). The resulting artifacts are listed in a Word document with each a still image. This dataset does not include the full video to protect individuals who do not want to appear in an archived video.