A podcast on data and how it affects our lives — with Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner
Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner discuss the latest developments in data analytics, visualization and related topics.Hi Folks, great news ... we are experimenting with a new format for Data Stories that includes ... that includes ... that includes ... guess whaaaaaat? Video! After having heard many many times that it's hard to imagine how a visualization looks like when we are talking about it, we have decided to experiment with a new format. This is for now just a pilot to see how you guys react, so we would love to hear your feedback about how you like it and how we can improve. To be clear: we are not planning to substitute our regular podcast with this, we are trying to build a parallel channel. In this pilot episode the great Gregor Aisch from the New York Times agreed to describe in detail how the amazing 3D Yield Curve Chart has been realized. As many of you may know, 3D visualization has not a very good reputation among data visualization experts, yet Gregor and Amanda managed to create a super interesting and useful 3D chart. Gregor shows us where the idea originated from, all the crazy details about how to create a 3D chart that people can actually read, and how to calculate optimal views and a good narrative out of it. Enjoy the new TV show! We are looking forward to hearing from you. P.S. A big big thank you to Gregor for accepting to shoot this video with these two totally unexperienced video editors! :) Thanks Gregor, that was awesome!
Erschienen: 08.05.2015
Dauer: keine Angabe
Hi folks! We have Benedikt Groß with us on the show. Benedikt defines himself as a "speculative and computational designer who works antidisciplinarily." Benedikt graduated from the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art and he works for his studio in Stuttgart, Germany. He is the co-author of ‘Generative Design,’ one of the standard books on the topic. In the show we talk about some of his amazing data projects at the intersection of art, design, science, sociology, etc. Aerial Bold, for instance, is a project about searching satellite images to find buildings and geographic features that look like letters. The Big Atlas of LA Pools, is a project about mapping all pools in LA. And Population.io is about showing demographic data in an engaging way and even giving you a prediction of when you are going to die! This is an amazing episode with stories about how Bill Gates crushed Population.io with one tweet, how they published 74 books of pool images totaling about 6000 pages, and how they outsourced some of the work to an Indian company to trace the pools. Amazing stuff! Enjoy it! LINKS Generative Design - Benedikt's book on generative design RCA Design Interactions The Big Atlas of LA Pools Aerial Bold Kickstarter Page Letter Hunt for Aerial Bold - help Benedikt and his team find letters! Population.io Foldit - Science Gamification Tool
Erschienen: 24.04.2015
Dauer: 01:04:36
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "53 | Data Safaris w/ Benedikt Groß"
Hey yo, we have Jen Christiansen from Scientific American with us in DS#52. Jen is art director of information graphics at Scientific American magazine where she is been for about then years and she has a background in natural science illustration from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Science communication is one of our favorite topics and we are so happy to have such an amazing expert like Jen on the show. Jen reveals the nitty gritty of scientific visualization and illustration as experienced by one of the top scientific communication magazines in the world. "How does a scientific piece come to life? Where does an idea for a new piece come from? How do they interact with the scientists to make sure everything they report is accurate and yet accessible for a broad audience? And what does need to be done before an illustration gets ready for print?" We discuss this and many other questions with Jen. Enjoy the show! This episode of Data Stories is sponsored by Tableau. You can download a free trial at http://tableau.com/datastories. jen-christiansen LINKS Jen Christiansen’s home page http://jenchristiansen.com Scientific American: http://scientificamerican.com A Look under the Hood of Online Data Visualization (collection of SciAm graphics from the past) Where the Wild Bees Are: Documenting a Loss of Native Bee Species between the 1800s and 2010s (Piece on Bees done with Moritz) (project’s page from Moritz) Jan Willem Tulp’s The Flavor Connection (on food pairings theory) - and original scientific article and graphics from Barabási’s lab (pdf) Pop Culture Pulsar: Origin Story of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover (artists using scientists' images - transcending the context of a visualization)
Erschienen: 02.04.2015
Dauer: 01:02:36
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "52 | Science Communication at SciAm w/ Jen Christiansen"
Hi Folks! Dietmar Offenhuber We have another great guest on the show. Dietmar Offenhuber visits us to talk about smart cities and visualizing data coming from cities. Dietmar has an interesting background. He has a background in architecture with a Dipl. Ing. from the Technical University Vienna and then he got a MS in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab and a PhD in Urban Planning from MIT. He's also been a key researcher at Ars Electronica Futurelab. Now he is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in the departments of Art + Design and Public Policy, where he does research on the technological and social aspects of smart cities and urban governance. In the show we talk about many of his super interesting projects such as Wegzeit (timespace visualizations of LA) and Trash Track (on tracking and visualizing where garbage goes), and interesting concepts such as Accountability Technologies and Infrastructure Legibility. We also talk about the future of smart cities and what we should expect to get our of smart cities. Enjoy the show! LINKS (Moritz Launched ON BROADWAY with Lev Manovich, Dominikus Baur, Daniel Goddemeyer) Our Guest: Dietmar Offenhuber Arts Electronica Future Lab MIT Senseable City Lab Northeastern University Department of Art + Design Wegzeit - timespace visualizations of LA Comment Flow (social media visualization) Semaspace (graph editing tool) Trash Track (tracking and visualizing trash) Smartcitizen (distributed crowdsourced sensors) Bill Mitchell (MIT Media Lab Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences) Mapping the archive (project with Dietmar and Moritz on the Arts Electronica Archive) Dietmar's Interview: Sorting Out Cities Deitmar's Book: Inscribing A Square (how urban data shapes public space / discourse, and what kinds of representations are involved, and what is their function) Dietmar's Book: Accountability Technologies – Tools for Asking Hard Questions Dietmar's Book: Decoding The City
Erschienen: 19.03.2015
Dauer: 01:10:16
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "51 | Smart Cities w/ Dietmar Offenhuber"
Ah! We made it to 50 episodes and three years of this lovely podcast of ours. We have loved every bit of it, every guest, every single discussion and all the support we received from everyone. For this episode we asked repeatedly to submit a short audio snippet or text and we received a few amazing ones. We are very grateful to you all guys, this is amazing. In the episode we talk about a few statistics we extracted on episodes with highest number of listeners and blog posts with highest number of visits. We then read the text messages we received. And finally we have inserted the audio messages we received. THANKS A LOT! This is amazing. P.S. Special thanks to Erik Jacobson for his amazing collage! :) LINKS Most popular episodes (of about the last 12 months) Data Stories #39: DensityDesign w/ Paolo Ciuccarelli Data Stories #38: Visual Complexity w/ Manuel Lima Data Stories #40: Narrative Visualization Research w/ Jessica Hullman Data Stories #44: w/ Tamara Munzner Most popular pages: Data Stories #5 – How To Learn Data Visualization (with Andy Kirk) Data Stories #22: NYT Graphics and D3 with Mike Bostock and Shan Carter Data Stories #35: Visual Storytelling w/ Alberto Cairo and Robert Kosara Podcast recommendations: Talking Machines (on Machine Learning) Theory Of Everything Song Exploder Reply All
Erschienen: 06.03.2015
Dauer: keine Angabe
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "50 | Happy Birthday Data Stories!"
Hi everyone, In this episode we have Scott Klein from ProPublica with us. ProPublica is a nonprofit organization that does investigative journalism and Scott directs a team of data journalists and programmers to create new applications based on data and data visualization. In the show we talk about how ProPublica works and what challenges they are confronted with. How do you pick a story? How do you develop it? How do you make sure you are not making mistakes? This are some of the questions we discuss. We also talk about tools and libraries and how to train yourself to become a data journalist. This was a very much needed episode as we never had a proper episode on data journalism. Thanks Scott for coming on the show! --- LINKS ProPublica's Dollars for Docs Book: How Not To Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg PDF Scraping Tool: Tabula (http://tabula.technology/) The IPython Notebook (web-based interactive computational environment) ProPublica's Open Source Tools The New School's Program Journalism + Design The ProPublica Nerd Blog Knight-Mozilla Open News (community of data journalists) NICAR-L Mailing List (National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting)
Erschienen: 27.02.2015
Dauer: 01:08:40
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "49 | Data Journalism at ProPublica w/ Scott Klein"
Great episode here folks! We have Stamen's CEO Eric Rodenbeck on the show to talk about "Visualization Going Mainstream". Moritz took inspiration from Eric's Eyeo talk "And Then There Were Twelve – How to (keep) running a successful data visualization and design studio." and decided he must come on the show. Stamen is a design studio in San Francisco founded in 2001 by Eric. They have been real pioneers in data visualization and cartographic mapping with the production of great apps and libraries such as Pretty Maps, Trulia Hindsight, Crimespotting and many many more. (See also our episode with Mike Migurski) With Eric we discuss a broad range of important topics including: how to manage a vis business, how to have an impact with visualization and visualization success stories. Enjoy the show! LINKS Eric’s talk at Eyeo Stamen’s Digg Labs visualization Founder of Digg Kevin Rose First word art / last word art Book: Maps and Legends Out of Sight, Out of Mind - Pitch Interactive’s Drones Visualization James Bridle’s Dronestagram Stamen’s Crimespotting Project (mapping crime in San Francisco and Oakland) maptime.io: open learning environment to learn how to make maps The Atlantic’s Article on: Why I Am Not A Maker Stamen’s Work with San Francisco Museum Of Art
Erschienen: 10.02.2015
Dauer: 00:56:28
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Data visualization researcher Enrico Bertini and Truth & Beauty Operator Moritz Stefaner discuss their views on data visualization, infographics, information aesthetics and related themes. http://datastori.es http://twitter.com/datastories
Erschienen: 28.01.2015
Dauer: 01:12:18
We have two classic guests for a classic episode: a year review with Robert Kosara and Andy Kirk. We talk about what happened in visualization in 2014 and what may happen in 2015. We start the show saying that nothing really special happened, but then you'll see we cover a lot of ground and end up eventually deciding that a lot did happen!
Erschienen: 21.01.2015
Dauer: 01:24:29
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "46 | Year 2014 Review w/ Robert Kosara and Andy Kirk"
Happy new year, everyone! We start 2015 with a bang, and have Nicholas Felton on the show. We talk about his personal annual reports, typography, privacy, and how we all deal with data and tracking today. Great conversation. One more link we only found later: Practical Typography is a great starting point for anyone who would like to learn more about typography and type. Thanks again to Tableau Software for sponsoring the show! Check out the free trial they have, it's a great piece of software. And, in other news: We are looking for support with the audio editing! So, if you have some experience with audio editing podcasts, and could also imagine to help us with collection the links and titling the chapters etc, this would be great. We can offer a small compensation, too. And, of course, you're among the very first people worldwide to listen to the new Data Stories recordings :) Next week, we will record a 2014 review with a few of the usual suspects. What moved you this year? Leave us a comment or tweet us!
Erschienen: 03.01.2015
Dauer: 00:57:00
