090 | Beyond the Chart with Brendan Dawes

Data Stories

Hey folks, we are back!

Before delving into this episode’s content, we have a special announcement: we started a crowdfunding campaign to turn Data Stories into a show that is fully-funded by our listeners! You can support us by visiting our Patreon page, and all the details of the initiative can be found here.

For our first episode of 2017 we had a very delightful chat with Brendan Dawes. Brendan is an artist and designer who works with interactive installations, data visualizations, and all things across the digital and physical sphere. He has a lot of super fascinating projects, including the famous Cinema Redux, an art piece that visualizes entire movies as a collection of snapshots.

On the show we talk about his projects, his design process and philosophy, his relationship with the data visualization world, how he generates ideas, and his upcoming projects.

We hope you enjoy this great conversation at the intersection of data, art, design, interaction and visualization!

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Links

• Our Patreon crowdfunding campaign: https://www.patreon.com/datastories
• Brendan Dawes: http://www.brendandawes.com/
• Brendan’s Cinema Redux project: http://www.brendandawes.com/projects/cinemaredux
• Our episode on Indexical Visualization: http://datastori.es/80-indexical-visualization-with-dietmar-offenhuber/
• Brendan’s Doris Le Bot project: http://www.brendandawes.com/projects/dorislebot
• Brendan’s James Bond Kills project: http://www.brendandawes.com/projects/jamesbondkills
• Brendan’s Plastic Player project: http://www.brendandawes.com/projects/plasticplayer
• Brendan’s Six Monkeys project for email interaction: http://www.brendandawes.com/projects/sixmonkeys
• Processing software: https://processing.org/
• openFrameworks: http://openframeworks.cc/

http://datastori.es/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Brendan-Dawes-promo.m4v

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Chapters

1. Our sponsor: Qlik (00:00:12)

http://www.qlik.de/datastories

2. Greetings from Enrico and Moritz (00:00:52)

3. Announcing our Patreon crowdfunding campaign (00:01:31)

https://www.patreon.com/datastories

4. Introducing Brendan Dawes (00:03:52)

http://www.brendandawes.com/

5. Brendan's most famous project, Cinema Redux (00:07:28)

http://www.brendandawes.com/projects/cinemaredux

6. Doris Le Bot project (00:16:02)

http://www.brendandawes.com/projects/dorislebot

7. An artist working with data, not a data visualizer working with art (00:23:34)

8. Plastic Player project (00:28:45)

http://www.brendandawes.com/projects/plasticplayer

9. Six Monkeys project (00:36:29)

http://www.brendandawes.com/projects/sixmonkeys

10. Brendan's creative process and tools (00:41:03)

11. What's next for Brendan (00:48:23)

12. Get in touch & back us on Patreon (00:52:06)

https://www.patreon.com/datastories

13. Our sponsor: Qlik (00:53:40)

http://www.qlik.de/datastories