Virtual PubSci | Dr Brock Craft - Why Data Visualisation Matters

PubSci, London

Dr Brock Craft explains how data visualisation can be powerful, beautiful, and a matter of life and death.

On 30th April, PubSci is delighted to welcome Dr Brock Craft, our third speaker of the 2021 programme, for a talk titled Picture This - Why Data Visualisation Matters.Data is all around us - now more than ever as we navigate a pandemic in daily charts, and we struggle urgently to weigh covid-19 fatalities against the lesser risk from vaccination. But data is more than tables of figures; how we present and visualise data can have literally life-or-death consequences for how we understand it, how we interpret it, and what patterns we discern in it.Brock Craft is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design &amp; Engineering at the University of Washington. He specialises in Information Visualisation, Human-Computer Interaction, Physical Computing, and Learning Design. In this talk he will demonstrate why data visualisation matters to everybody, how there is genuine beauty to be found in data, and how a simple data visualisation could have prevented the Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster.[Event booking and joining information follows the description below]

An Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington , Dr Brock Craft has spent much of his career finding innovative ways to represent data in appealing, accessible, or aesthetically pleasing ways. Until 2015 he was Lecturer in Physical Computing, at Goldsmiths, University of London and programme founder/Senior Tutor on the MA in Information Experience Design at Royal College of Art, London.Brock has a Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from DePaul University, Chicago, and a PhD in Data Visualisation from University College London's Interaction Centre (UCLIC)In 2007 Brock helped form Tinker London, a design consultancy focused on creating products that bridge the digital and the physical worlds. As a partner at Tinker, Brock designed products and experiences for high-profile clients including Sony, Nokia, The Evening Standard and the BBC, often using data visualisation techniques to create appealing visual representations.Bridging his industry work with teaching and learning, Brock served as a research fellow at the London Knowledge Lab, where he focused on Learning Design, tools for pedagogy design, technology-enhanced learning, and interactive learning objects. “I have been investigating how people interact with technology and working to make it better for my entire career.”Brock is the author of <a href="https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Arduino+Projects+For+Dummies-p-9781118551479" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Arduino Projects for Dummie</a>s (2013) and co-author of <a href="https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Raspberry+Pi+Projects+For+Dummies-p-9781118766699" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Raspberry Pi Projects for Dummies</a> (2015), both published by John Wiley &amp; Sons.He is also creator of the Brockenspiel - a musical instrument that turns bar codes and magnetic swipe card stripes into music played on tubular bells, as featured on the BBC.

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