Data & Creativity

Berghs School of Communication 2018

Anders Åberg

I like to build silly things just for fun

The internet is Lego...

Listen To The Clouds

Experiment

+

System 1

System 2

= ???

= www.listentothe.cloud

"Live streaming the world of traveling"

Demo!

The result?

40 million streams

 ~ 42 sold out concerts in Globen

Back to the basics

What is a system?

System

  1. A set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole.
  2. A set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized scheme or method.

(Oxford English Dictionary)

  1. A set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole.

API

System 1

System 2

?

2. "A set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized scheme or method."

API

Allows you to get data and/or control a system

How to google for APIs:

"facebook api"

"spotify api"

"fitbit api"

"google maps api"

What is data?

Brief: SL

The Sound of Public Transport

Experiment

API

SL's bussar och tunnelbana

Ett digitalt piano

API

Google Maps

Demo!

Practical tips

  • Data is a good tool when combined with a story
  • Always (really always) include linkable sources
  • Static and Interactive visualizations

1. "My weight loss over 126 weeks"

2. Who's winning the olympics?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/14/upshot/which-country-leads-in-the-olympic-medal-count.html

3. Paradisläckan, SVT

https://www.svt.se/special/svenskarna-i-paradislackan/

4. Europe vs Africa

http://www.rts.ch/info/monde/9016433-le-terrorisme-tue-vingt-fois-plus-en-afrique-qu-en-europe.html

5. A Day of Life in America

http://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-americans/

6. "Facebook feed changes"

https://www.statista.com/chart/13018/social-media-traffic/

6. Dollar Street by Gapminder

https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/matrix

"- See how people really live"

7. Vad tror ni det här ?

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.88.3781&rep=rep1&type=pdf

8. Information is beauitful

https://informationisbeautiful.net/

9. Create graphs from excel

https://rawgraphs.io/

Quick Recap

  • Internet is like lego...
  • Build silly things because it's fun
  • Data can be a lot more than boring numbers
  • Data + Creativity > Creativity
  • You will get the slides and all the links

Thanks for listening

Questions?

Anders Åberg - @andersaberg

Extra: Idea Workshop

Google Maps

Wikipedia

Spotify

Smartphone

  • Gyroscope
  • Accelerometer
  • Light Sensor
  • Compass
  • Step Counter

Pick 2. What concepts could you make by connecting them?

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