Ideas change everything

How we can find ourselves in data

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Giorgia Lupi |

TEDNYC

• March 2017

Giorgia Lupi uses data to tell human stories, adding nuance to numbers. In this charming talk, she shares how we can bring personality to data, visualizing even the mundane details of our daily lives and transforming the abstract and uncountable into something that can be seen, felt and directly reconnected to our lives.

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Giorgia Lupi uses data to tell human stories, adding nuance to numbers. In this charming talk, she shares how we can bring personality to data, visualizing even the mundane details of our daily lives and transforming the abstract and uncountable into something that can be seen, felt and directly reconnected to our lives.

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Information designer, data humanist

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Dear Data

Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie Posavec | Princeton Architectural Press (2016)

Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie Posavec - *Dear Data*

PORTRAITS MADE OF DATA

Data Portraits at TED2017

How can we use personal data to create a connection between people? For the Target space at TED2017 in Vancouver, Accurat designed and produced unique visual Data Portraits of the attendees, visual designs based on answers to simple but evocative questions that were turned into wearable buttons, to spark conversations and connections for the five days of the event.

A dialogue between four hands: Can we feel data? And can we see music?

Musician Kaki King and Giorgia Lupi aim at exploring how we can use data to engage deeper experiences.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

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