HCI Seminar - Rahul Bhargava - Data Beyond the Visual
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Our standard toolkit of chart and graphs is poorly suited for the new community-oriented settings where data is now commonly used. Inspired by the arts, we can break free from outdated data practices and embrace creative, community-centered approaches that empower and engage people in public settings. Data sculptures, data murals, data theatre, and multi-sensory data experiences offer a broader and more appropriate set of approaches. Using this larger toolbox of data viz techniques can bring people together around data in ways that more fully reflect, embrace, and uplift their communities.
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Rahul Bhargava is an educator, designer, and artist working on creative data storytelling and computational journalism in support of goals of social justice and community empowerment. He has run over 100 workshops on data literacy, designed arts-based data murals and theatre, built award-winning museum exhibits, co-created AI-powered civic technologies with CSOs, and delivered keynote talks across the globe. Rahul’s first book, “Community Data: Creative Approaches to Empowering People with Information”, is now available from Oxford University Press. He leads the Data Culture Group as an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Art + Design at Northeastern University.
This talk will also be streamed over Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/95955852702.