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8 Infographics Congress 14 Moritz Stefaner Bio selfies Q&A wrapup what are we taling about agregaAon Moritz Stefaner truth and beauty operator cogni5ve science interessted in data analy5cal science + art = magic collec5ve intelligence brains custom data visual language highly interac5ve daily art expressing data Google images people taking photos selfieolympics historical possible for 150 years hCp://selfiecity.net is there more to it? millions of it funerals plane crash Oscar mirror Subtopic old why different now? interes5ng to inves5gate team of people meassuring cultural ar5fats data collec5on via instagram basis project 3200 selfies video: hCp://vimeo.com/87564095 Lev Manovich Book: language of new media New York São Paulo Berlin Bangkok Moscow 30k photos 20k photos 20 k photos 20 k photos 20 k photos human selec5on via Mechanical Turk (Amazon) es5mate facial recogni5on gender age fits on 1 screen overwhelming each image is a world of iets own context emerges when zooming in fractal copyright issues? rely on facial reconi5on for age? next project? only public photo’s no not at all mechenical turk mul5 selfies its about the process working with tags learning through playful exploraAons having fun with data data is not same as truth make the complex simple data vizualsa5on started with instagram distribu5on is there something interes5ng food people on instragram is not precise Subtopic macroscope tell worlds not stories new devices to cope with complexity complex topics: hard to photograph a new kind of glass to invesAgate humanity & nature simple facts artefacts alogorithms would facebook use be different facina5ng 4% are selfies a cityface media people deal with photo's differences between 5 ci5es age en gender distribu5on interac5ve applica5on new strategies needed to deal with large sets of images facial recogni5on everybody a mugshot exposing how machines sees uw generalise face automa5cly so‘ overlay generalisa5on 4x more women in Moscow take selfies than man in Bankok young women taking selfies demographics pose feartures mood
