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The Fine Artof
Data Gardeningmicrosoft design expo mini symposium
tu/e eindhoven, february 18, 2013
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they
know they shall never sit in.
greek proverb
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Carolus Linnaeus, 1732
1 , 9 3 9 , 9 6 6(number of identified species as of 2010)
data gardeneravant la lettre
(1)
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Digital Universe Study, 2012
The global data supply reached 2.8 zettabytes, or 2.8 trillion GB in 2012. Just 0.5% of this is used for analysis.
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“If you asked me to describe the rising philosophy of the day, I’d say it is data-ism.”
We now have the ability to gather huge amounts of data.
This ability seems to carry with it certain cultural assumptions: that everything that can be measured should be measured;
that data is a transparent and reliable lens that allows us to filter out emotionalism and ideology; that data will help us do remarkable things.
David Brooks / The Philosophy of Data
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data gardeneravant la lettre
(2)
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Armand Schulthess
Armand Schul thess(1901-1972)
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Armand Schulthess
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Armand Schulthess
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Armand Schulthess
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Armand Schulthess(legend written byIngeborg Lüscher)
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Armand Schulthess
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Armand Schulthess
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Armand Schulthess
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Armand Schulthess
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InfoArcadia, Stroom Den Haag, 2000
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Thomas Malthus
data gardeneravant la lettre
(3)
shades of the malthusian catastrophe
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nouns
Brandon Martin-Anderson et al, (MIT) - Interactive Census Dotmap with 454,064,098 dots - one for each person in North America, using 2010 census data
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nouns wi th behavior
Brandon Martin-Anderson et al, (MIT) - Interactive Census Dotmap with 454,064,098 dots - one for each person in North America, using 2010 census data
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ronald van tienhoven - commemorative euro coin ‘400 years Netherlands-Manhattan’ (2009) - verso
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ronald van tienhoven - commemorative euro coin ‘400 years Netherlands-Manhattan’ (2009) - recto
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evocat ive nouns
Edward Rolf Tuftefrom: Envisioning Information
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data- ink rat io
(coined by Edward Rolf Tufte)
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data-p ixe l rat io
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Sergey Semonov - multi-stichted ultra-high resolution aerial panorama of Central Park and environs
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"The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more
advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others. The compositional concentration is solely on which pattern should be reiterated and for how long."
Morton Feldman / Why Patterns?
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1923 2008
4535 Time magazine covers, 1923-2008 - Lev Manovich and Jeremy Douglass / Software Studies Initiative (softwarestudies.com) / 2009-2010
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what > i f
(means o f ident i f i cat ion)
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i f > then
(means o f empowerment )
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f in
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