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The Fine Artof
Data GardeningI.C.E. Summer School
July 5, 2013
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they
know they shall never sit in.
greek proverb
Carolus Linnaeus, 1732
1 , 9 0 0 , 0 0 0(number of identified species as of 2010)
data gardeneravant la lettre
(1)
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.
“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
emotionalism and ideology...
Technology is the most powerful force on the planet. In fact, humanity is a tool itself, and, like all living things, technology evolves, demonstrating certain unconscious “urges” and “wants” in the process. Technology cannot be held back. But we can try to optimize its benefits for human culture, even while potentially trying to limit the amount of technology in our own lives. kevin kelly
data gardeneravant la lettre
(2)
Armand Schulthess
Armand Schul thess(1901-1972)
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Armand Schulthess(legend written byIngeborg Lüscher)
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InfoArcadia, Stroom Den Haag, 2000
Thomas Malthus
data gardeneravant la lettre
(3)
shades of the malthusian catastrophe
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
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
ronald van tienhoven - commemorative euro coin ‘400 years Netherlands-Manhattan’ (2009) - recto
evocat ive nouns
Edward Rolf Tuftefrom: Envisioning Information
data- ink rat io
(coined by Edward Rolf Tufte)
data-p ixe l rat io
Sergey Semonov - multi-stichted ultra-high resolution aerial panorama of Central Park and environs
"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?
1923 2008
4535 Time magazine covers, 1923-2008 - Lev Manovich and Jeremy Douglass / Software Studies Initiative (softwarestudies.com) / 2009-2010
Lev Manovich et al - Mapping Time: 4535 Time magazine covers, 1923-2009
what > i f
(means o f ident i f i cat ion)
i f > then
(means o f empowerment )
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© ronald van t ienhoven 2013