http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXW3WVeMC64
I was trying to interpret the above map with data..
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Anastasia Karandinou <a.karandinou@gmail.com
> wrote:
> Very interesting topic; Many thanks Roger!
>
> As you said, the question is interesting both ways: measuring and
> quantifying the 'un-quantifiable' on one hand and interpreting/
> comprehending/ making meaning/ using/ ... data. Very interesting questions
> both at a theoretical level, and also in relation to specific practical
> questions and examples.
>
> I recently attended an interesting symposium on a very similar field of
> questions:
> http://www.arch.uth.gr/en/activities/528
> My understanding was that the debate was initiated thanks to a new museum/
> databases designed in Volos. One of the questions was about how to organise
> data so that they then can be experienced in desirable ways (and what is
> 'desirable'...). How would an interface create the possibility of exciting/
> interesting/ creative exploration of the data. How would the user/ visitor
> re-create or create/ experience a narrative through some encounter with
> the data.
>
> Other studies presented had to do also with the opposite; how can a
> narrative/ an experience/ ... be organised, or fragmented, or 'pinned down'
> as a sum of data?
>
> I find these questions really interesting, especially when they are
> related to specific projects/ case studies.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:42 PM, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Yasminers
>>
>> here is a possible discussion topic
>>
>> Big Data Made Sensible ? Making Big Data Meaningful ?
>>
>> Lots of confusion out there under the buzz word of 'big data' that
>> conflates issues of form and content of large
>>
>> data streams. A key caveat is that you can only analyse the data you
>> have not the data you need and of course
>>
>> as Albert Einstein warned: Everything that can be counted does not
>> necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be
>> counted.
>>
>> There is a big debate between empirical and qualitative methods in the
>> arts and humanities.
>>
>>
>> One interesting area that allows new approaches to make sense of large
>> data sets is complex network
>>
>> science= where insights on the structure and interconnections of data
>> can be obtained. Leonardo for the past few
>>
>> years has been championing the research and creative community that is
>> linking the arts, humanities and complex networks
>>
>> through annual Leonardo Day Symposia at the NETSCI conferences. The
>> latest one is June 4 in Copenhagen.
>>
>> http://artshumanities.netsci2013.net/
>>
>> A Leonardo ebook now brings together the work of 45 artists and
>> researchers :
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store/dp/B007S0UA9Q
>>
>> (note- if you bought previous editions of this ebook, you
>> automatically get the annual updates free).
>>
>> The work ranges from the study of archeological remains, to social
>> media networks, to biological to art history to
>>
>> network music that sonifies the structure of the web.
>>
>> We are also having a great evening at the Medical Museum in Copenhagen
>> in the old dissection theater
>> on The Data Body on the Dissection Table= on complex networks and medicine
>>
>> http://olats.org/studiolab/databody.php
>>
>>
>> There is no doubt set as data sets get bigger there are new research
>> areas that become 'enabled'- for instance the
>>
>> study of rare events or unusual relationships is facilitated when data
>> sets become very large. Digitisation also brings
>>
>> topics into the reach of numerical methods topics which until then
>> remain elusive or apocryphal ( eg the evolution of
>>
>> language through analysis of millions of texts over 300 years).
>>
>>
>>
>> However big data enthusiasts need to remember Einstein's warning that :
>>
>> Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything
>> that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
>>
>>
>>
>> PS you can find the abstracts of the ebook at:
>>
>> http://ahcncompanion.info/
>>
>> and more discussion on my blog
>>
>> http://malina.diatrope.com/2013/06/02/big-data-made-sensible/
>>
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