Paolo Ciuccarelli, a communication designer and researcher, professor of design, founder of the Density Design Research Lab - an award-winning laboratory for data visualization and information design at Politecnico di Milano – as well as Founding Director of the Center for Design at Northeastern University.
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Where to find Paolo:
X: https://twitter.com/pciuccarelli?lang=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paolociuccarelli
Politecnico di Milano: https://dipartimentodesign.polimi.it/it/staff/show/42952
Northeastern University: https://camd.northeastern.edu/people/paolo-ciuccarelli/
Density Design Lab: https://densitydesign.org/person/paolo-ciuccarelli/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pciuccarelli/
Maria + GGUTT:
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Introduction
02:16 How he got into Data Visualization
04:52 Discovering data and bringing it to life
05:26 The mission of making complexity visible
07:16 Hype around data visualization and data visualization people
09:30 Data visualization engineers or designers?
12:47 Education and the importance of data and making sense of it
15:02 The growing opportunity for education and data culture in that space
17:44 What is data or what it is not
20:17 Da a and visualization: it doesn’t end there
23:10 Context, complexity and types of complexity
24:17 Heath data
28:19 Data could be misleading and hurt
30:24 Understanding people and the context is why designers found a place in DV
33:29 Research, literature and knowing limitations
33:48 Data lakes, dashboards and complexity
35:13 Aspirational: big visualizations with more big data
35:52 Our relationship with data will change: narration, mediums and augmentation
39:25 Personalization, visualizing complexity with motion
40:17 Simplicity, complexity, tradeoffs even with organizational charts
45:55 Wayfinding through data: different interfaces for different purposes
51:48 Visualization is a not an end product
52:54 Paolo on his GGUTT feeling
56:48 Approaching projects, starting with the data
58:48 Starting with Why
01:00:00 Sometimes data should not be represented
01:01:54 Raw data is not raw
01:02:44 From wood to data, to training models to wearables and legos
01:06:26 Sensors, raw data and using Gen AI rather than working on it
01:09:59 The language around data in the industry: drawing from oil, gold and more
01:14:55 Questioning data origins
01:18:08 Datasets on the blockchain?
01:20:28 Views on VR and AR
01:22:39 Static, interactive, real-timevisualizations
01:27:10 Real-time can be seducitve
01:29:06 Data representation evolution
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