{"id":2797,"date":"2015-08-04T18:01:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T02:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2015-08-05T05:34:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T13:34:48","slug":"beautiful-data-ii-metalab-at-harvard-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/beautiful-data-ii-metalab-at-harvard-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Data II @ Metalab at Harvard University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/121883641?title=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This month found me at the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/beautifuldata.metalab.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beautiful Data II workshop<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/metalab.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MetaLab at Harvard University<\/a> sponsored by the Getty Foundation. Participants worked together in the Carpenter Center and Harvard Art Museum under the theme &#8220;Telling Stories About Art with Open Collections.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-01-at-7.03.00-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-01-at-7.03.00-PM-1024x722.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-01 at 7.03.00 PM\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were presentations by known visualization and museums experts, breakout sessions exploring how to represent problem data and collections, and talks by participants and Metalab staff and fellows, including a wonderful group of artists, curators, designers, and scholars in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-01-at-7.03.43-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-01-at-7.03.43-PM-1024x573.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of the many highlights starting with this nerdy shot of me&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1030056.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1030056-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"P1030056\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1000822.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1000822-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"P1000822\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/datatherapy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Data Therapy workshop<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/rahul.connectionlab.org\/about-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rahul Bhargava<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/prezi.com\/snz7pz_nigo4\/\" target=\"_blank\">slides1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/prezi.com\/szctdlhvzbo_\/\" target=\"_blank\">slides2<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-8.18.09-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-8.18.09-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-04 at 8.18.09 PM\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nLearning about provenance at the Harvard Art Museum (note stamp declaring Nazi property)<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperhewitt.org\/2013\/04\/11\/cat-memes-of-antiquity\/\" target=\"_blank\">spanking cat statuette<\/a>\u00a0from the Cooper Hewitt collection.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/colourlens.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colour Lens<\/a>\u00a0produced at Beautiful Data I.<br \/>\nPresentation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshandnew.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seb Chan<\/a> Director of Digital at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperhewitt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Hewitt<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/memslam\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Memory Slam<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Montfort<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/222538\/cat-art-from-the-met-museum-makes-the-purrfect-browser-plug-in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meow Met Chrome extension<\/a>\u00a0shows cats from the Met Museum in new tabs. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_3966.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_3966-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3966\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBehind the scenes of <a href=\"http:\/\/ivansigal.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Sigal<\/a>&#8216;s Karachi Circular Railway, Harvard Art Museum Lightbox. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeanddeathofdata.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Life and Death of Data<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/yloukissas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yanni Loukissas<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/o-c-r.org\/abstract\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Rubin<\/a> discussing his and works by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quasimondo\/albums\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Klingemann<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armoryonpark.org\/programs_events\/detail\/ryoji_ikeda\" target=\"_blank\">Ryoji Ikeda<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.blprnt.com\/blog\/blprnt\/art-and-the-api\" target=\"_blank\">Jer Thorp<\/a> and others.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_william_james_\" target=\"_blank\">William James Twitter Bot<\/a> by Rachel Boyce.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/116603551?title=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/librarybeyondthebook.org\/cold_storage\/\">Cold Storage<\/a> documentary by Jeffrey Schnapp, Cristoforo Magliozzi, Matthew Battles, et al.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" 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