Data Visulisation - Guest Lecture

DSDN 244: guest lecture Richard Clarkson

today my data vs. raw data?

abstraction of data = “Black spots� visualisation media data resolution

data + photography

“Data itself is never neutral; it is collected for a reason, and processed and presented for specific purposes…There is no such thing as raw data.”

Peter Hall Critical Visualization

the lowest level of abstraction from which information and then knowledge are derived

black spots

data sets

Ken Murphy

“How do you get the story from the data... [the audience] want to know what's the important thing. They want to know why they want to look at it.�

Scott Byrne-Fraser BBC News Online

“The winking lights, the flickering television screens and the squawks from the music machines are signalling the end of abstract art; when machines can do it, it will not be worth doing.�

Robert Melville 1968

Satre Stuelke Radiology Art 2006

visualisation media

coding visualisations

QR Tag “to be or not to be”

Aaron Koblin

Radiohead: House of cards, James Frost ( Director) & Aaron Koblin (Interaction)

data resolution

Arturo Castro

“For me the highest goal is to change what you think about the world, or to take something you already know and to think about it again for the first time.�

Amanda Cox The New York Times

Caleb Charland

data + photography

= “datography”

Micheal Najjar

Peter Orntoft

MRI

angela palmer untitled MRI 2005

angela palmer untitled MRI glass transfer

2005

angela palmer untitled glass transfer 2005

David Spriggs

All Blacks “Bonded by Blood” 2006

end‌ Questions? clarkson.richard.nz@gmail.com Ted Talks (optional)