#data-ism

Shinjuku Station, Tokyo, Japan, Photo by Hiro, 1962. Reactivated

Could not resist to reactivate this one.  #Data-ism

Matthieu Bourel

dojo.EK (electrickettle) / Data-ism / the singing canary

Absurd / Incongruous, 2017. Ernst Thelott - Elise Dorothea Friederike von Schaezler (1833),  revisited - https://dojo.electrickettle.fr/index.php/collages/revisited/

“Big data is good at interpolation - figuring out what happens next, when the outcome is, most likely, a continuation of the current trend. It is far less good at extrapolation - figuring out what happens next when the trend line of the future is less clear. In short, big data stumbles when a decision requires an intuitive step outside the data sandbox - beyond the range of data.” - pg 53 ln 11

“The big in big data matters, but a lot less than many people think. There’s a lot of water in the ocean, too, but you can’t drink it. The more pressing issue is being able to use and make sense of data.” - pg 4 ln 27

Another Look at the Data

Steve Lohr, a journalist for the New York Times, knows how to explain. He has written about technology for decades and his book, written with Joel Brinkley, on the federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft is outstanding. Lohr is not a “gee-whiz” technology enthusiast. He is also not a Luddite, crying for the return to a simpler, earlier age. Instead, he brings solid technical knowledge to the…

The Singing canari

Musicien, sound designer et collagiste basé à Berlin, Mathieu Bourel développe un travail surréaliste autour du Gif avec un procédé presque automatique. Cette démarche qu'il a baptisé Data-ism, est une manière pour lui de gérer le flux visuel incessant et démesuré offert par le web.