TEDxGallatin - Paul May - Data Representation, Personal Narratives and Media

Paul May is a designer from Dublin, Ireland. He is currently attending ITP as a Fulbright award winner in Science, Technology and Innovation. Paul's work spans design research, computer science, strategy, writing, teaching and data visualization. His work has been featured on Core77, NYTimes.com, Infosthetics.com and Visualizing.org. His online home is paulmay.org
When you hear the word data, or even the word information, you don't automatically think about emotions or stories - but maybe you should. In this talk designer Paul May talks about his data visualization work that tells personal stories with large sets of public data.
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Great talk, Paul May. Thanks for the information!

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"when we interract with humans, say, in a social network, we're not actually interracting with them. We're interacting with their representations of themselves."-Paul May