I like the presentation and your work a lot. Really loved the way you explained the different aspects piece by piece. It truly amazes me how much creativity is involved and at the same time I find it inspiring how to simplify an overload of data. Thank you so much for sharing! 🙏🏽🍀
I love the poppy visualization for conflict. I am familiar with the reference with Remembrance Day in the Uk as well as the Flanders field reference you mention.
Underestimated this talk, then WoW! 44:10~ found myself deeply appreciating this talk because it offers such new perspectives into representing music. Thank you, Valentina D’Efilippo for presenting what has now expanded my possibilities in life. ✨🕺✨ I suggest sending this music segment to every artist you can, especially make TikTok videos. Lol got to reach the people where the attention is, eh? Love love LOVE this talk.
Wow, I was not expecting to love this as much as I did. She's so talented and so humble and absolutely incredible at translating complex concepts into genuinely excellent data vis. Love love love
14:37 What did you mean by "I asked them to draw *the concept* of a man and a woman"? Did you have to explain to them what "concept" means? Were they primed in other ways?
Thanks for this very interesting talk! I really like how you combine presenting the data and science with art, and I also like the connection from seeing to sensing to stimulating. Not sure if I can use this in my own work, but at least your talk has definitely inspired me.
Take pilot wave theory - replace with every particle in the universe has a magnetic monopole moment in view if it’s out environments own individual monopole moments/ the calibration (gravity) (overcoming of externals based on collective strength - grouping (mass)- overlapping ⚙️🧲) of these in electrodynamic waves with some number under layers. 1/2-1-1/2 etc spins ⚙️ gyro pins in the environment! This same mechanism is how energy is transformed from propergating through waves into higher levels... the outer spectrum of light & frequency 🚪🧮. Quantum Power & chirality - & time operating underneath everything. Every particle has a unique ID🧮 quantum precision
"Lecture on Data Visualization! Round up the usual suspects - Brinton, Minard, Nightingale, Playfair, Scheiner, Snow, Tufte, and Ursina." "Found Playfair and someone called Hawkins. And ... um ... _two_ Snows." "That's fine, put them all in the lineup."
Her book, which she discussed in the video, is *_"The Infographic History of the World"_* by Valentina D'Efilippo and James Ball, 2013. @The Royal Institution: When books or other media are mentioned in a video, it's customary to put corresponding links in the description.
A small insight came to me when she associated the cave picture and the pictogram. Prehistoric drawings must have been drawn for practical reasons. Especially the better ones. The given specimen must have cost, at least several hours for primitive human(s). It May have been - Warning sign - As a tribal leader, I Barako Bama, must warn you that such a beast is wandering near our cave. Or the reverse - Prey. - Tarzan, you are our best hunter, show the novices what prey looks like and probably tell them some hunting strategies using the image. - Yes, Mr. Barako. Tarzan will! Or at least: Trophy - Moana, Chita, Lilo, Cardi see me, I have killed several such monsters, Tarzan is good provider! - Ooo, Tarzan. You are not only the best tribal hunter but also a great painter, way ahead of his time. Or most likely: Totem - Chief - occupied. Top hunter - occupied. I have to invent a new profession. I will call it shaman. I will draw some bull(shit) image, but call it God and make a career out of it.
16:23: Ha ha, instead of saying _"potable,"_ she incorrectly said _"drinkable."_ Now I'm no language police. And, like her, I too am _not_ a native English speaker. So I fully sympathize with her. When I was being taught English, I too made "mistakes" like that, and was brutally punished by sadistic teachers at school. So when she said _"drinkable,"_ it triggered my PTSD. Had to get it out. Please don't hit her knuckles with the edge of a wooden ruler. PS: English's own rules give you the adjective of _"drink"_ as _"drinkable,"_ not _"potable."_ "Correct" English is arbitrary, illogical, ridiculous, and pathetic. Had to get that out too.
I too have discovered several statistical correlations: - The number of *views* of a video is inversely correlated 📉 to its *length.* Creatively visualized as 😴💤. - The number of *dislikes* is related 📈 to the speaker's *accent.* 🙉😱
I'm quite shocked that the RI, an institution with such a rich history of science, fact and reality, can allow a presentation like this. It seems to use artistic means to possibly manipulate the significance of data with a clear political undertone.
If you think that data are neutral you must think again. Data are always political, even more so when used to drive decision making and/or communication. This talk, in my opinion, does a good job at exposing some of the limitations of science and data. Data are a manmade creation. We collect it, we decide how to frame it and how to present it. In every step of the process, human biases play a role. Thank you RI for such an insightful video and Valentina keep up the good work!
re.: flattening the curve... 7:35 "to protect the health care system..." i.e. not necessarily lives as the area under the curve is still the same, which is to say - the graph fails in that regard as it misrepresents that basic idea, fails to make it clear, in fact it does worse, it obfuscates the truth, the presumption that lives are saved from that. Also doesn't address root cause - with the health care system is the end point of a covid contraction event, the root cause would lie at the beginning of such an event. all said and done, the problem has not been solved.
