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New aesthetics for data narrativeVisualized conference
5-6 February 2014New York
giorgia lupitw: @giorgialupiwww.accurat.itwww.giorgialupi.net
Verdi
(10th October)
pupil ofVincenzo Lavigna
Virginia Maria
elected as a liberal-moderate representative
opening of the Suez Canal (for which he composed Aida)
Franco-Prussian war
death of Manzoni(for which he composed
Messa di Requiem)
birth of Young Italy
adoption of the Albertine Statute
Unification of Italy
MargheritaBarezzi
GiuseppinaStrepponi
Icilio Romano
(22nd May)
Cosima Wagner
Minna Planer
Matilde Wesendonck
IsoldeEva
Sigfrido
pupil ofTheodor Weinlig
flees to Switzerland for political reasons
active participation in revolutionary movements
1820
1825
1830
1835
1840
1845
1850
1855
1860
1865
1870
1875
1813
La TraviataLa Fenice - Venice
AidaOpera House - Cairo
RigolettoLa Fenice - Venice
NabuccoLa Scala - Milan
Il TrovatoreTeatro Apollo - Rome
MacbethTeatro della Pergola - Florence
Un ballo in mascheraTeatro Apollo - Rome
OtelloLa Scala - Milan
FalstaffLa Scala - Milan
Don Carlos
GiuseppeVerdi
RichardWagner
New?
Non common?
Unusual?
customized for that piece, for that topic, for that data that haven’t necessarly been seen before
Visual models and metaphors
How to read it?
AidaOpera House - Cairo
RigolettoLa Fenice - Venice
NabuccoLa Scala - Milan
Il TrovatoreTeatro Apollo - Rome
MacbethTeatro della Pergola - Florence
Un ballo in mascheraTeatro Apollo - Rome
OtelloLa Scala - Milan
FalstaffLa Scala - Milan
Don CarlosSalle Le Peletier - Paris
Verdi
(10th October)
pupil ofVincenzo Lavigna
Virginia Maria
elected as a liberal-moderate representative
opening of the Suez Canal (for which he composed Aida)
Franco-Prussian war
death of Manzoni(for which he composed
Messa di Requiem)
birth of Young Italy
adoption of the Albertine Statute
Unification of Italy
MargheritaBarezzi
GiuseppinaStrepponi
Icilio Romano
(22nd May)
Cosima Wagner
Minna Planer
Matilde Wesendonck
IsoldeEva
Sigfrido
pupil ofTheodor Weinlig
flees to Switzerland for political reasons
active participation in revolutionary movements
1820
1825
1830
1835
1840
1845
1850
1855
1860
1865
1870
1875
1813
La TraviataLa Fenice - Venice
AidaOpera House - Cairo
RigolettoLa Fenice - Venice
NabuccoLa Scala - Milan
Il TrovatoreTeatro Apollo - Rome
MacbethTeatro della Pergola - Florence
Un ballo in mascheraTeatro Apollo - Rome
OtelloLa Scala - Milan
FalstaffLa Scala - Milan
Don Carlos
GiuseppeVerdi
RichardWagner
evocative
visually pleasant How to read it?
AidaOpera House - Cairo
RigolettoLa Fenice - Venice
NabuccoLa Scala - Milan
Il TrovatoreTeatro Apollo - Rome
MacbethTeatro della Pergola - Florence
Un ballo in mascheraTeatro Apollo - Rome
OtelloLa Scala - Milan
FalstaffLa Scala - Milan
Don CarlosSalle Le Peletier - Paris
unexpected but
experimental but
“FAMOUS WRITERS’ SLEEP HABITS AND LITERARY PRODUCTIVITY”
Illustrations and data-visualizations?
Maria Popova, Accurat, Wendy Mc Naughton,for brainpickings.org
Accurat (Giorgia Lupi, Simone Quadri, Davide Ciuffi, Federica Fragapane)
“VISUALIZING PAINTERS’ LIVES”painter’s stiles to steal from
Personal Project, directed by Giorgia Lupi and Michela Buttignol, produced by Accurat
1964
Cell biology
Gen
etics and heredity
1956
Mathematics
Biophysics
Biology
Bio
chem
istr
y an
d molecular biology
Astrophysics
Mul
tidis
cipli
Multi
disciplinary chemistry
Analytical chemistry
Artificial Intelligence
Condensed-matter physics
Environmental sciences
Multidisciplinary sciences
much faster? As a proxy for the pace of science, we looked at how
few years after publication, as the ideas in the paper catch on, then -
In some fields, like math, that rise-and-fall pattern takes longer than others, like cell biology. But in almost every field, the pattern
Life sciences fields have a quicker pace
overall—evident in their narrower colored
rings—than the physical sciences.
Recent papers tend to have more authors—as in environmental
science [far right].
Solid-color rings indicate how many years after publication the top 50 papers reached their collective citations peak—the “pace.”
Notes display time-to-peak for the top 20
Bars represent the cumulative number of
“THE ACCELERATING PACE OF SCIENCE”visual inspirations from different fields
Accurat for Popular Science, April 2014, Giorgia Lupi, Simone Quadri, Glauco Mantegari, Davide Ciuffi, Pietro Guinea Montalvo
1964
Cell biology
Gen
etics and heredity
1956
Mathematics
Biophysics
Biology
Bio
chem
istr
y an
d molecular biology
Astrophysics
Mul
Multi
disciplinary chemistry
Analytical chemistry
Artificial Intelligence
Condensed-matter physics
Environmental sciences
Multidisciplinary sciences
much faster? As a proxy for the pace of science, we looked at how often academic papers reference one another. A paper’s citation rate typically follows a straightforward pattern: it goes up for a few years after publication, as the ideas in the paper catch on, then goes down as the work fades from collective memory, is disprov-
In some fields, like math, that rise-and-fall pattern takes longer than others, like cell biology. But in almost every field, the pattern
Life sciences fields have a quicker pace
overall—evident in their narrower colored
rings—than the physical sciences.
Recent papers tend to have more authors—as in environmental
science [far right].
Using the Web of Science database, we considered the 20 largest science fields—those with the most articles each year. Within those fields, we calculated how long it took an
Solid-color rings indicate how many years after publication the top 50 papers reached their collective citations peak—the “pace.”
Notes display time-to-peak for the top 20
Bars represent the cumulative number of
_top 20 scientific papers,_cumulative number of citations,from 1948 to 1998
1948
1998
1964
Cell biology
Gen
etics and heredity
1956
Mathematics
Biophysics
Biology
Bio
chem
istr
y an
d molecular biology
Astrophysics
Mul
Multi
disciplinary chemistry
Analytical chemistry
Artificial Intelligence
Condensed-matter physics
Environmental sciences
Multidisciplinary sciences
much faster? As a proxy for the pace of science, we looked at how often academic papers reference one another. A paper’s citation rate typically follows a straightforward pattern: it goes up for a few years after publication, as the ideas in the paper catch on, then goes down as the work fades from collective memory, is disprov-
In some fields, like math, that rise-and-fall pattern takes longer than others, like cell biology. But in almost every field, the pattern
Life sciences fields have a quicker pace
overall—evident in their narrower colored
rings—than the physical sciences.
Recent papers tend to have more authors—as in environmental
science [far right].
Using the Web of Science database, we considered the 20 largest science fields—those with the most articles each year. Within those fields, we calculated how long it took an
Solid-color rings indicate how many years after publication the top 50 papers reached their collective citations peak—the “pace.”
Notes display time-to-peak for the top 20
Bars represent the cumulative number of
1964
Cell biology
Gen
etics and heredity
1956
Mathematics
Biophysics
Biology
Bio
chem
istr
y an
d molecular biology
Astrophysics
Mul
Multi
disciplinary chemistry
Analytical chemistry
Artificial Intelligence
Condensed-matter physics
Environmental sciences
Multidisciplinary sciences
much faster? As a proxy for the pace of science, we looked at how often academic papers reference one another. A paper’s citation rate typically follows a straightforward pattern: it goes up for a few years after publication, as the ideas in the paper catch on, then goes down as the work fades from collective memory, is disprov-
In some fields, like math, that rise-and-fall pattern takes longer than others, like cell biology. But in almost every field, the pattern
Life sciences fields have a quicker pace
overall—evident in their narrower colored
rings—than the physical sciences.
Recent papers tend to have more authors—as in environmental
science [far right].
Using the Web of Science database, we considered the 20 largest science fields—those with the most articles each year. Within those fields, we calculated how long it took an
Solid-color rings indicate how many years after publication the top 50 papers reached their collective citations peak—the “pace.”
Notes display time-to-peak for the top 20
Bars represent the cumulative number of
(visual references)
“SELLING AT SUNDANCE”3D and 2D Barbapapa
Accurat for Bright Ideas Magazine, January 2014
Giorgia LupiMichele Graffieti
Beasts of theSouthern Wild
$ 1,8M$ 1M
$ 12,8M
AnotherEarth
$ 0,15M$ 1M
$ 1,3M
Lay theFavorite
$ 20M$ 2M
$ 1,6M
Austenland
$ 7,8M$ 4M
$ 1,9M
Red Lights$ 22,4M
$ 4M$ 13,55M
YES, BUT WHY?
(image / Accurat for La Lettura,remix of data visualizations )
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Great Britain
Canada
Belgium
France
Australia
Usa
Germany
Switzerland
Japan
Sweden
4.334
3.946
3.490
2.8172.931
1.690
3.689
4.258
3.780
3.319
4.683
5.017
5.189
Ireland3.372
China1.198
Turkey
Norway5.503
Portugal4.307
Luxembourg4.824
Austria4.122
Poland1.597
South Korea4.946
Russia3.091
Do you want to live a world of barcharts?
(image / Accurat for La Lettura, The Brain Drain)
Catching interest, Trying to make people feel something,Triggering curiosity to understand
(image / Accurat for La Lettura, The Pritzker Architecture Prize)
Producing pieces easy to be remembered
(image / Accurat for La Lettura, Nobels, no degrees)
"you know what I like the most? the one displaying those kind of candelholders… yes, that one I'd love to hang it on the wall !”
FUNNY COMMENTS, 01
“Oh, so sweet of you, granny! but I am just
curious… do you remember the
topic at least?”
“Topic?”
(grandmother)
(image / Accurat for La Lettura, Geniuses, Visualized)
(Kabbalah and Sephirots)
"Oh Accurat! You guys are the ones who did the one that looks like green and red jellifishes, right? it's beautiful!”
FUNNY COMMENTS, 02
NYC Datavisualization Meetup, Sept 2013
(image / Accurat for La Lettura, Geniuses, European banks and government debt)
“I saw your last one, the one with the clocks, I mean for the authors! Love it !!”
FUNNY COMMENTS, 03
office-mate, december 2013
(image / Accurat for La Lettura, From first published to masterpieces)
how people remember and name them, what they refer to,(Triggering curiosity to understand)
FUNNY COMMENTS, 04
in a cafè, Milan, February 2013
FUNNY COMMENTS, 04
in a cafè, Milan, February 2013
(image / Accurat for La Lettura, the Brain Drain)
“see this difference between Italy and Spain, (...)Dont’t they seem like little guns? They do their job though!”
(abstract paintings)
Visual inspirations from unusual contextsas an attemp to analyze the aesthetic qualities of things naturally pleasant to our eyes
(images, various abstract paintings
Familiar aesthetics,Recognized visual languages
(images, various visual inspirations
mus
ic ro
om
relig
ious m
usic
com
posit
ion fo
r pia
no
oper
a
music room
religious music
composition for piano
opera
orchestral music
vocal music
symphonic music
band music
prose
1840
1845
1850
1855
1860
1865
1870
1875
1880
1890
1900
1895
1885
current diffusion of work[...]
1901
1883
Aida
Opera House - Cairo
Rigoletto
La Fenice - Venice
Nabucco
La Scala - Milan
Il Trovatore
Teatro Apollo - Rome
Macbeth
Teatro della Pergola - Florence
Un ballo in maschera
Teatro Apollo - Rome
Otello
La Scala - Milan
Falstaff
La Scala - Milan
Don Carlos
Salle Le Peletier - Paris
Simon Boccanegra
La Fenice - Venice
La forza del destino
La Fenice - Venice
·28
Parsifal
Festspielhaus - Bayreuth
Siegfried
Festspielhaus - Bayreuth
Tannhäuser
Semperoper - Dresden
Götterdämmerung
Festspielhaus - Bayreuth
Lohengrin
National Theatre - Weimar
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
National Theatre - Munich
Rienzi, der Letzte der
Tribunen
Semperoper - Dresden
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Festspielhaus - Bayreuth
(27th January)
Vincenzo Lavigna
Virginia Maria
elected as a liberal
-moderate representative
opening of the Suez Canal
(for which he composed Aida)
Franco-Prussian
war
death of Manzoni
(for which he composed
Messa di Requiem)
adoption of the
Albertine Statute
Unification of Italy
signed the Triple Alliance between
Germany, Austria and Italy
MargheritaBarezzi
Giuseppina
Strepponi
entry into the Senate
Icilio Romano
(13th february)
Cosima Wagner
Matilde
Wesendonck
IsoldeEva
Sigfrido
flees to Switzerland
for political reasonsactive participation in
revolutionary movements
(image: Accurat for La Lettura: Verdi and Wagner)
Aristotle
“Metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else
In the end, creating is all about playing and innovating within familiar forms
Twyla Tharp
“
(image: Accurat for La Lettura: Writers in prison, not for their books)
New aesthetics for data narrativeVisualized conference
5-6 February 2014New York
giorgia lupitw: @giorgialupiwww.accurat.itwww.giorgialupi.net
