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073 | Kim Albrecht on Untangling Tennis and the Cosmic Web
Data Stories
English - May 04, 2016 18:15 - 30 minutes - 21.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 388 ratingsVisual Arts Arts fitness interview leadership entrepreneurship health business lifestyle finance marketing entrepreneur Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Kim is a visualization researcher and information designer. He currently works at the Center for Complex Network Research, the lab led by famous network physicist László Barabási.
Kim works in a team of scientists to create effective and beautiful visualizations that explain complex scientific phenomena.
In the show we focus on Untangling Tennis, a data visualization project aimed at explaining the relationship between popularity and athletic performance. We also talk about his more recent project, the Cosmic Web, which visualizes 24,000 galaxies and their network of gravitational relationships.
Enjoy the show!
This episode of Data Stories is sponsored by Qlik, which allows you to explore the hidden relationships within your data that lead to meaningful insights. Make sure to check out the blog post listing Visualization Advocate Patrik Lundblad’s favorite data visualization pioneers. You can try out Qlik Sense for free at qlik.de/datastories.
LINKS
Kim Albrecht: http://kimalbrecht.com/
Untangling Tennis: http://untangling-tennis.net/
The Cosmic Web: http://cosmicweb.barabasilab.com/
D3.js: https://d3js.org/
three.js, a javascript library for 3D vis: http://threejs.org/
Ben Shneiderman’s The New ABC of Research: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/newabcs/
Peter Galison's Image and Logic: http://www.amazon.com/Image-Logic-Material-Culture-Microphysics/dp/0226279170
Peter Galison’s “Images Scatter Into Data, Data Gathers Into Images”: http://www.ann-sophielehmann.nl/content/docs/grgalison.pdf
Kim is a visualization researcher and information designer. He currently works at the Center for Complex Network Research, the lab led by famous network physicist László Barabási.
Kim works in a team of scientists to create effective and beautiful visualizations that explain complex scientific phenomena.
In the show we focus on Untangling Tennis, a data visualization project aimed at explaining the relationship between popularity and athletic performance. We also talk about his more recent project, the Cosmic Web, which visualizes 24,000 galaxies and their network of gravitational relationships.
Enjoy the show!
http://datastori.es/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Kim-Albrecht-Promo-final.m4v
This episode of Data Stories is sponsored by Qlik, which allows you to explore the hidden relationships within your data that lead to meaningful insights. Make sure to check out the blog post listing Visualization Advocate Patrik Lundblad’s favorite data visualization pioneers. You can try out Qlik Sense for free at qlik.de/datastories.
LINKS
Kim Albrecht
Untangling Tennis
The Cosmic Web
D3.js
three.js, a javascript library for 3D vis
Ben Shneiderman’s The New ABC of Research
Peter Galison‘s Image and Logic
Peter Galison’s “Images Scatter Into Data, Data Gathers Into Images”
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