Climate Quickie: The hidden beauty in climate data
This week, we’re speaking to data artist, TED Senior Fellow, and founder of Translating Nature, Dr. Julie Freeman, to delve into the hidden beauty in climate data. Numbers, charts, graphs – data gets a bad rep as being dense and hard to interpret. So what
Climate Curious · Josie Colter
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This week, we’re speaking to data artist, TED Senior Fellow, and founder of Translating Nature, Dr. Julie Freeman, to delve into the hidden beauty in climate data. Numbers, charts, graphs – data gets a bad rep as being dense and hard to interpret. So what if we could use art to visualise data in more appealing formats? That’s exactly what Julie set out to do with her commission for Hiscox, ‘More Than Us’; a live data-driven digital artwork that uses Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life algorithms to respond to multiple data sets including future climate catastrophe predictions and the past 100 years of climate related disasters.
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Produced by Josie Colter
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