Vice reports that the Colorado State Fair's fine art competition has been won by a person called Jason Allen, who submitted this AI-generated piece of art. I do quite like the picture, but, as you might expect, it's created a bit of uproar amongst some artists of a more traditional nature. One of the more … Continue reading Should artificial intelligences win art competitions?
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You made a chart. So what?
In the latest fascinating Periscope video from Chris Love, the conversation centred around a question that can be summarised as "Do data visualisations need a 'so what'?". There are many ways of rephrasing this: one could ask whether it is (always) the responsibility of the viz author to highlight the story that their visualisations show? … Continue reading You made a chart. So what?
Dabbling with Data 