Open Tech Calendar

This is going to be our last meetup for this year, slightly un-aligned with the others, but we taking the great opportunity to host Samuel Huron and his profound french accent during next week, talking to us in an improvised and non-academic talk about his work on human data visualization.

Human made data visualization is about "Everyone can data vis". This session will revolve simple ideas and means to convey complicated messages through explanation and visualizations. The updated and final outline for the meetup is as follows:

1) Sketching warm-up

2) Pizza, drinks, and socializing

3) Samuel Huron on: Human Data Visualization, Sketching, and Tokens for thinking with Visual Representations. Samuel is an associate professor in digital design in the social and economical sciences department of Telecom at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris in France. telecom-paristech.academia.edu.

4) Data Vis shorts:
• Wealth distribution in the US:
www.youtube.com
• Do Federal Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
www.youtube.com
• Hans Rosling's shortest TED talk
www.youtube.com
• Syrian refugees
www.youtube.com
• Economia Circular
www.youtube.com

5) COP26—We'd like to open the stage for discussions
What can we contribute as a vis community? Can/shall we host events?

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As always, we have open spots for everyone to show and tell, discuss and draw, provoke and perform.

Please do circulate this invitation. Everyone is welcome. We're in an accessible space. Bring your colleagues, family, friends, & kids.

À tres bientôt!
and thanks to our sponsor Cirrus for Pizza and drinks.
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Ben, Brendan, Uta, and Gordan

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Human made visualisation

We usually use the term data visualization to speak about visual representations of data rendered by computer. I have been deeply interested in how human without computers are making visual representations of data. I will improvise a presentation around a collection of work close to this thematic, and some other novel work.
After the talk, I will propose a personal data sketching exercise to explore your personal data about your time.

Samuel is part of the Co-design Lab and in charge of developing the design studio inside the school. In 2014, he graduated with a PhD in computer science from the University Paris Saclay, the Pompidou Center and INRIA. For his work on “constructive visualization”, he received the 2015 best doctoral dissertation award from IEEE VGTC Pioneer Group. He was then invited as a Post-doctorate researcher at the University of Calgary in the Innovis group. Before, he was the lead designer of the Institute of research and Innovation of the Pompidou Center. His research is mostly focused on the design process of visual representation of data, design methods apply to research and computer-human interaction. His approach is grounded in fifteen years of experience with interactive media industries where he worked for a broad range of civic, cultural and corporate clients.