Learning from Data
- As a data scientist, the way we learn about the world is through the streams of data that real world events produce
- Machine processes
- Political outcomes
- Customer actions
- The watershed moment in our field has been the profusion of data available, from many places, that is richer than at any other point in our past.
- In 251, and 266 we place structure on data series like audio, video and text that are transcendently rich
- In 261 we bring together flows of data that are generated at massive scales
- In 209 we ask, “How can we take data, and produce a new form of it that is most effectively understood by the human visual and interactive mind?