Creative Data Science - Peter van der Putten

Data science is not just an interesting field of research, but also a tool for students (and anyone interested in research) to become an autonomous researcher. Just like an autonomous artist, an autonomous researcher works from personal inspiration, is not afraid to tinker and research-by-doing and is open to asking unusual questions and follow unusual research approaches. In this talk Peter van der Putten will present a number of inspirational examples by student researchers from the Media Technology program at Leiden University, ranging from a machine that has learned to generate abstract paintings, a system to detect moral reasoning to a robot aiming to connect people in public space.

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1. Discover the world at Leiden University Discover the world at Leiden University dff Creative Data Science Peter van der Putten, Media Technology PyData @JADS, May 15, 2018
2. Discover the world at Leiden University About Me
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4. Discover the world at Leiden University Media Technology is about Actual scientific research science, papers, research, publications, conferences Personal inspiration & creativity media, arts, festivals, conceptual, playful, inspiring Research by doing technology, installations, creating things, open projects, unusual questions / methods / forms of output Mixing Science, Art, Technology The Media Technology MSc programme is a place where students are encouraged to translate personal inspirations and curiosities into their own research projects. To answer these questions, students create actual works, because we are convinced that by doing and creating, new scientific insights into the underlying question are encountered. To achieve this, the curriculum focuses on creative exploration and on the understanding of science and technology. One might say that Media Technology delivers autonomous creative researchers, just as art academies deliver autonomous artists. The programme prepares students for any future career involving creative and critical thinking, and in particular prepares them for a future in scientific research.
5. Discover the world at Leiden University Discover the world at Leiden University Jules Verdijk (2015). Evolving Affective Abstract Art through Measures Learned from a Corpus of Human-Made Art.
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10. Discover the world at Leiden University Try it out at http://julesver.com/examples/gen/
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12. Discover the world at Leiden University Discover the world at Leiden University Livia Teernstra (2015). (A)moral Machine: exploring the creation and application of an automated moral classifier. Livia Teernstra, Peter van der Putten, Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens and Fons Verbeek, The Morality Machine: Tracking Moral Values in Tweets. In: Fifteenth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA), 2016
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14. Discover the world at Leiden University The Ability to Judge: The Morality Machine 14
15. Discover the world at Leiden University The Ability to Judge: The Morality Machine 15
16. Discover the world at Leiden University Experiments 16
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18. Discover the world at Leiden University Discover the world at Leiden University Sabrina Verhage (2015). Track & Trace: Improving the Chance for Serendipituous Encounters in Urban Public Space Using a Drawing Bot.
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20. Discover the world at Leiden University Track & Trace
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23. Discover the world at Leiden University Basic Exploration 24
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27. Discover the world at Leiden University We, The Robots Carlos Martin, Helena Frijns and Lucia Martin, 2016
28. Discover the world at Leiden University DeepMeaning (Dan Xu, 2016)
29. Discover the world at Leiden University Yasser S. Arenas Rebolledo (2016). A test for a Lovelace machine. • Interactive extensions to the original Titular algorithm to allow for augmented use Keep template, change words Keep word, change templates Keep some words, keep template
30. Discover the world at Leiden University Sam Verkoelen (2015). Exploring Dimensionality Reduction on Semi-structured Photos — A Closer Look at Exactitudes. • Exactitudes is a photo series by Ari Versluis en Ellie Uyttenbroek
31. Discover the world at Leiden University Discover the world at Leiden University Creative Coding (& Research) Tools
32. Discover the world at Leiden University Processing (processing.org)
33. Discover the world at Leiden University OpenFrameworks (openframeworks.cc)
34. Discover the world at Leiden University Wekinator (www.wekinator.org)
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36. Discover the world at Leiden University Machine Learning for Artists (Gene Kogan) • https://ml4a.github.io/
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38. Discover the world at Leiden University Discover the world at Leiden University Thank you! Peter van der Putten liacs.leidenuniv.nl/~puttenpwhvander/ www.linkedin.com/in/petervanderputten/ mediatechnology.leiden.edu/ www.facebook.com/mediatechnologymsc/