09 02 2018
Karin van Es: Data-driven approaches are often par­tic­u­larly good at rais­ing new ques­tions, which may need to be answered with dif­fer­ent meth­ods
On data-driven research and visu­al­iz­a­tion with Karin van Es from Utrecht Data School, who gave a lec­ture at Data (for) cul­ture con­fer­ence in Katowice
Łukasz Mirocha, Karin van Es
08 05 2017
Medi­alab coders talk about the chal­lenges of data acquis­i­tion and ana­lysis
Suc­cess­ful data ana­lysis in cul­tural pro­jects would not be pos­sible without the work of a team of coders who work hand in hand with design­ers and research­ers to cre­ate the best tools and meth­ods of work­ing with data. We asked our experts – Dawid Górny and Mar­cin Cho­jn­acki – to talk about their daily work and the chal­lenges they face dur­ing each stage of the pro­ject.
Marcin Chojnacki, Dawid Górny, Łukasz Mirocha
14 04 2017
How to trans­form data sets into tools for explor­ing cul­tural phe­nom­ena?
Explor­at­ive data ana­lysis is at the heart of any data-driven research pro­cess. Hav­ing spent sev­eral months col­lect­ing data from vari­ous sources: social media, web sites, and our own sur­veys, we were able to per­form pro­to­type ana­lyses and visu­al­isa­tions in order to test the qual­ity of the col­lec­ted data and its use­ful­ness at a later stage of work. Being half-way into our study, we are anxious to see how the work done so far will help us explore the issues we are inter­ested in.
Karol Piekarski, Waldemar Węgrzyn
20 02 2017
Stu­dio NAND: There is noth­ing worse than a visu­al­isa­tion that tries to con­vey too much inform­a­tion at once
On Janu­ary 9–10, Medi­alab once again had the pleas­ure of host­ing Stef­fen Fiedler and Stephan Thiel of Ber­lin’s design stu­dio NAND, who gave an open lec­ture, and con­duc­ted a two-day work­shop for rep­res­ent­at­ives of insti­tu­tions work­ing jointly on the Shared Cit­ies pro­ject. In an inter­view given to Medi­alab, the data visu­al­isa­tion experts talked about their work, best visu­al­isa­tion prac­tices and the future of the industry.
Łukasz Mirocha