Data as a creative material @CollideHalifax 2014

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1. Data as a creative material FFunction Data as a Creative Material Audrée Lapierre & Sébastien Pierre Collide Halifax, October 23rd 2014
2. Data as a creative material FFunction Information Design & Data Visualization Studio founded in 2008 Leader in Canada
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7. Data as a creative material About this talk
8. Data as a creative material ART COMMUNICATION DESIGN
9. Data as a creative material THOUGHTS EXPERIENCE &
10. Data as a creative material PART I Art & Data
11. Data as a creative material Ellsworth Kelly, The Meschers, 1951 (oldest reference in Wikipedia's “generative art” entry)
12. Data as a creative material Frieder Nake, Walk-through-Raster, series 2, 1-4 See 20-20 digital hindsight. Frieder Nake, Walk-through-Raster, series 2, 1-4, C-type print, Germany, 1966. © artist. Photo: V&A Images.
13. Data as a creative material Ryoji Ikeda, Datatron, 2008
14. Data as a creative material THE PROCESS & THE RESULT Automation (in art) was a paradigm shift. The result is determined by a process, but unknown to the artist before the process is complete.
15. Data as a creative material Jared Tarbell, Substrate 2003
16. Data as a creative material Variations in output from Jared Tarbell, Substrate 2003
17. Data as a creative material Jared Tarbell, Orbitals 2004
18. Data as a creative material Jared Tarbell, Invader Fractals 2003
19. Data as a creative material MACHINE CO-CREATION The result is the act of co-creation between the artists/programmer and the machine.
20. Data as a creative material “Set an algorithm and let it go” Dextro, http://www.turux.org/
21. Data as a creative material Subblue, Fractals http://www.subblue.com/
22. Data as a creative material Robert Hodgin, Stippling, http://vimeo.com/8252908
23. Data as a creative material RANDOM NUMBERS & ALGORITHMS Randomness, complex maths and physical/biological simulations are key materials in generative design
24. Data as a creative material AESTHETICS OF COMPLEXITY The amount of details permitted by computers lead to an aesethetics of complexity.
25. Data as a creative material Christoph Bader, https://www.flickr.com/photos/deskriptiv
26. Data as a creative material Nervous Systems, Hyphae Lamp
27. Data as a creative material Michael Hansmeyer, Digital Grotesque
28. Data as a creative material MACHINE & ORGANICS Interestingly, some works give the impression of being the product of a natural process, reconciling technology & natural life
29. Data as a creative material SWAPPING RANDOM NUMBERS FOR DATA Data is sampled from our environment. Its is a byproduct of human/natural activity.
30. Data as a creative material Ben Fry, All Streets, 2008
31. Data as a creative material Visualizing Friendships, Paul Butler, 2010
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33. Data as a creative material A MIRROR OF OURSELVES As a reflection of ourselves & our complex social fabric, data adds a new dimension to the resulting artwork.
34. Data as a creative material COMPLEX & MEANINGFUL Data has the same complex quality as random numbers do, but there is a potential for meaning & insights
35. Data as a creative material PART II How the data landscape evolved
36. Data as a creative material 1990 2000 2010 VOLUME OF DATA EASE OF WORKING WITH DATA
37. Data as a creative material 1990 2000 2010 VOLUME OF DATA EASE OF WORKING WITH DATA Random Numbers Feeding more numbers in algorithms to increase complexity.
38. Data as a creative material See it live on http://vimeo.com/72611093 Design by Numbers John Maeda (MIT) Late 90s Designed by Numbers is an interactive environment for generative art, that later inspired Processing (Ben Fry, Casey Reas)
39. Data as a creative material 1990 2000 2010 VOLUME OF DATA EASE OF WORKING WITH DATA Geographic & Scientific Data Visuals can be used to reveal things about our environment. Actual data makes interesting pictures!
40. Data as a creative material Line Drops David Endelman 1997 “The lines in this image are of hundreds of underground and underwater pipelines that draw oil from a reservoir in the Huntington Beach area of California.” From “The Fine Art of GIS Cartography” ESRI proceedings
41. Data as a creative material 1990 2000 2010 VOLUME OF DATA EASE OF WORKING WITH DATA Web 2.0 APIs User-generated is published en-masse. Tagging creates new ways to organize content. RSS & APIs made content machine-accessible.
42. Data as a creative material Interactive visualizations of a Delicious.com bookmark. Revealicious, Sébastien Pierre, 2005
43. Data as a creative material 1990 2000 2010 VOLUME OF DATA EASE OF WORKING WITH DATA Social Networks & Media Data about large-scale communities and conversation is now available.
44. Data as a creative material Vizster Early social network visualization tool Vizster, Jeffrey Heer & Danah Boyd, 2005
45. Data as a creative material 1990 2000 2010 Open Data Citizens can understand and map how the governments work and perform services.
46. Data as a creative material DataViva Interactive exploration of Brazil's open data. 2014
47. Data as a creative material More Data! The volume of available data grew significantly over the past decade
48. Data as a creative material Easier to access & use Data is more accessible (data portals, APIs) and tools make it easier to use and visualize.
49. Data as a creative material Data to understand our society With social networks, social media and open-data we have immediate access to a lot of information to understand our society.
50. Data as a creative material Data for everyone With democratization of infographics, data- journalism & public datasets, data is not reserved to scientists and specialists anymore.
51. Data as a creative material PART III Communicating Data
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54. Data as a creative material Similar diversity, Philipp Steinweber & Andreas Koller, 2001
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57. Data as a creative material Practical Tips What you need to know when working with data in (visual) communication #
58. Data as a creative material #1 Data Is Not Information Data needs context to be interpreted and turned to information.
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60. Data as a creative material #2 Data calls for (visual) Summaries Visuals and statistics allow to make the data digestible.
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62. Data as a creative material #3 Data = Fact (for a lot of people) Numbers have an authority that words don't have.
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64. Data as a creative material #4 Visuals Are The Message The way you choose to represent the data defines how people will read it.
65. Data as a creative material HEADLINE “Obama undid the mess left by the previous administration” HEADLINE “Just as many jobs were lost during the Bush yeas as during the Obama years”
66. Data as a creative material #4 Data May Not Match Your Story Data won't necessary tell the story you would like it to tell (but you can always tweak the charts)
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69. Data as a creative material #6 Data Opens Up Dialogue (and criticism) As there's not a single unique way to interpret data, using data means you open up to a conversation.
70. Data as a creative material Same dataset, Three different interpretations Data: Spending of the global middleclass, 2009-2030
71. Data as a creative material #7 Data Leads to New Narrative Forms Showing data means that you won't be able to explain everything, and will let some of the story be written by the reader.
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73. Data as a creative material PART IV The Visualization Spectrum
74. Data as a creative material INFOGRAPHIC DATA VISUALIZATION INTERACTIVE CHART DASHBOARD ANNUAL REPORT DATA MINING TOOL MAPPING There are many different approaches we can take to a new data-driven project
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77. Data as a creative material START HERE
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79. Data as a creative material EXPLORATION NARRATION
80. Data as a creative material EXPLORATION NARRATION INFOGRAPHICS
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82. Data as a creative material EXPLORATION NARRATION DATA JOURNALISM
83. Data as a creative material http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/health/how-ebola-spreads/
84. Data as a creative material EXPLORATION NARRATION DASHBOARDS
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86. Data as a creative material EXPLORATION NARRATION DATA VISUALIZATION
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88. Data as a creative material Exploration Narration PROS + Discovery + Free progression & exploration CONS - Little control - Could miss important things PROS + Controlled experience & messaging + Progressive introduction CONS - Experts might not like it - Reduced opportunity for new insights
89. Data as a creative material DATA STORY DESIGN Data Visualization requires a multi-disciplinary approach
90. Data as a creative material And that makes it difficult to find an individual who is good at everything DATA STORY DESIGN
91. Data as a creative material At FFunction, we started like this DATA STORY DESIGN
92. Data as a creative material We realized rather quickly the importance of storytelling... any thus, even when doing an exploratory visualization DATA STORY DESIGN
93. Data as a creative material You might start as specialists DATA STORY DESIGN
94. Data as a creative material But quickly, everyone will have to learn about the others' fields of expertise DATA STORY DESIGN
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96. Data as a creative material PART VI What's Next
97. Data as a creative material #1 Many devices, Many sizes Desktop, laptop, mobile phone, table and interactive screens... How do we create visualizations that work across this wide range of supports?
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99. Data as a creative material #2 How do I relate to the data, how does it relate to me? With some of the novelty wearing out, how do we make data interesting, and how to we adapt this data to the user? YOU DATA
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101. Data as a creative material #3 Quantified Self & Internet of Things Data The quantity of data available about us, individually, is going to increase significantly with the new breed of devices coming in. This not only raises design questions, but ethical questions as well.
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103. Data as a creative material #4 Data For Good With Open Data, citizens can get involved and use data to influence and change society. Data can now be use to solve problems... and maybe help expose corruption?
104. Data as a creative material Burak Arikan, Networks of Dispossession http://istanbul-urban-research.blogspot.ca/2014/01/networks-of-dispossession.html
105. Data as a creative material Thanks! Data As A Creative Material FFUNCTION @ffunction www.ffctn.com