From π to Pie charts

“How I discovered my love for design, data & technology.”
Short talk on the 20th anniversary of BITS Pilani Goa Campus by Rasagy Sharma for Maths & Computing course.

Transcript

1. From to Short talk by Rasagy Sharma (2007A7PS086G) BITS Pilani Goa Campus 23 Nov, 2024 “How I discovered my love for design, data & technology.”
4. 1.CS @ Pilani 4.Maths @ Goa
5. I discovered the world of design. Current: Head of Design for DataLabs at Capital One. Earlier: Microsoft, Barclays, Gramener, Sundial, Mapbox, Capillary Technologies. Also: Adjunct Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay, Visiting Faculty, NID. • Creative Multi-Media (elective) by Prof. Adil Mistry • PS-1: C# to Usability testing • PS-2: PHP to Interaction Design • Software Development for Portable Devices (2011)
6. Maths Technology Design
7. • • • • • Maths Technology Design Graphic Design UI/UX Design Creative Coding Data Viz & Analytics Marketing
8. “Mathematics expresses itself everywhere, in almost every facet of life: music, art, architecture, and of course, design.” — Marcus du Sautoy, British Mathematician, Author of The Number Mysteries
12. “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” — John Tukey, American mathematician and statistician (Developed Fast Fourier Transform algorithm and box plot)
13. Map projections turn a 3D nearly spherical shape into 2D space. Isochrones visualize maps by time, not distance.
14. Data Analytics, Cartography, Front-end Dev, Machine Learning…
15. Using data art for conversations…
17. “Most of us need to listen to the music to understand how beautiful it is. But often that’s how we present statistics: we just show the notes, we don’t play the music.” — Hans Rosling, Founder of Gapminder Foundation; Author of Factfulness
20. Maths Technology Design Graphic Design UI/UX Design Creative Coding Data Viz & Analytics Marketing