Nerd Nite 20: Beauty in Data

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https://vimeo.com/78773806

Transcript

1. James Davenport There’s Beauty in Data
2. James Davenport There’s Beauty in Data An excuse to talk about some fun data visualizations
3. Hi, I’m Jim
4. . com Data, Visualization, Science, Astronomy, Asking (sometimes stupid) questions
5. What is Data? Datum: 
 A piece of information, fact, quantity, statistic, a premise from which to drawn an assumption
6. Use of Data Graphics in Journalism is Rising
7. Info-graphics are very popular
8. Hans Rosling gapminder.com
10. Data Software & Skills Becoming More Available
11. Data  Scientist:    Sexiest  Job  of  the  21st  Century?
12. Maybe  not... Data  Scientist:    Sexiest  Job  of  the  21st  Century?
13. Maybe  not... Data  Scientist:    Sexiest  Job  of  the  21st  Century?
14. Data impacts your
    everyday life! • newspapers, maps, phones, groceries, prices • traffic flow, weather, airline flights • elections, war, funding, NSA • ABV of your drink
15. Coffee:! Always ! within a ! 2 minute! walk! 2 min ! 1 min ! 5!
16. United States of Starbucks
17. Furthest Point from a Starbucks
19. Data Visualization:
    Important and Cool • Not all data science is visualization • Enables unique insight in to data (especially big data)
20. AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL MM NN OO 11 98 998 9 7 78 0 0 8 987676 9 7 7 6 87 87 96 85 85 86 595 96 598 75 986597 64 765976 597658 76 97 6 6 76 9 67 5 5 9 568697568 9 9 96 85 987 59 7 6 5 9 9 5 9 6 9 9 587698 76 875 98 7 687676 7 987 98 59 65 76 9 87 8 7 8 70 785 87 98 7 98 75 9 74 53645226 54 8 9 0 84 52 7 5 9 0 1 6 8 9 9 675 3 68 9 0 -1 86 75 54 24 45 56 76 78 80 89 87 75 45 34 24 4 56 r 34 46 w5 56 78 990 90 786756 3 3 23 3 45 56 765 78 879 89 89 98 67564534 23 3 Too Much to Understand!
21. 0 25 50 75 100 AA BB CC DD Reduction/comparison enables insight
23. Data: a form of pop art
24. Let’s play a game...
    Art or Data?
26. Data Art 4 hours using Eclipse, traced with IOGraph “14 Billions” (2010) by Tomás Saraceno
27. Art “14 Billions” (2010) by Tomás Saraceno
28. Data 4 hours using Eclipse, traced with IOGraph
30. Ellsworth Kelly Jaz Parkinson Data Art
32. Ellsworth Kelly Data Art James Davenport (me!)
33. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2004 2003
34. The Average Top-10 Best-Selling Book Cover From 2000-2011
36. The world as drawn by airports
38. Maybe this is Data & Art
39. Data Analysis Art Science Beauty Reflection Wonder Truth Why I think There’s Beauty in Data
40. Female 51.8% Male 48.2% Gender of White House Visitors since 2009 Ugly graph Cool Result
41. Text “Cece You’re It” by Peter G. Adamczyk
42. “Capacity” by James Davenport (me!)
43. Days Battery Capacity (%) My laptop battery, recorded every 1-minute 148,000 rows
44. Days Time of Day Inspired by Stephen Wolfram Sleep (usually) Dinner Summer Internship
45. • Data makes us think, reflect, contemplate • Obvious visual appeal • Data seems more honest/objective • These effects are driving the growing 
 hunger for data! Why I think There’s Beauty in Data Data Analysis Art Science
46. Days Time of Day @jradavenport ifweassume.com /There’s Beauty in Data stay nerdy! Thanks for listening...
47. hey girl... in case you’ve been waiting to make this joke all night @jradavenport ifweassume.com