David Benqué @air_pump@post.lurk.org

Merry Christmas 🎄⛄🌹✊

After years of using GIT mainly on my own I sure am glad to have some friends to play with.

🗓️🔖 2.11.2019
Next week I'll be at IMPAKT Festival in Utrecht NL, on a panel about "Calm Technology" with Olia Lialina, @ccl , and Annet Dekker as moderator—curated by @l03s as part of the festival theme: Speculative Interfaces. I'll talk about mapping Youtube recommendations, and the possibility of perhaps, maybe, chilling out within algorithmic traps. 🕸️

https://impakt.nl/events/calm-technology/

🕸️ I may have over-diagrammed

🖥️🛰️🔬🔭 This time next week I'll be presenting at this conference on media-archaeology practices in art & design at the University of Toulouse 🐓🇫🇷 .

https://lla-creatis.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/navigation/manifestations-scientifiques/sonder-les-dispositifs-numeriques-pratiques-archeologiques-en-art-et-en-design-664829.kjsp

The results of my workshop on mapping algorithmic recommendations, held at ENSCI Paris, are published online at:

https://adr.diagram.institute

✏️📐 Fournitures de Rentrée 📑🎨
Preparing some Amazon web scraping examples for next week's workshop at ENSCI Paris.

notebook: https://gitlab.com/davidbenque/atlas-des-recommendations/blob/master/Fournitures%20Amazon.ipynb

"Financial Music" a review of the "Spotify Teardown" book by Robin James, starting with this great quote.

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EUxB-0rYbiFPDj6W6vHPkxtGMJPAq2pT/view

This time next week I'll be starting a workshop at ENSCI in Paris . We'll attempt to map recommendation systems + think about the role of instruments in this mapping.
🗜️,🔭📐🛰️🔬🧪📡

🔭 Making plans for 2020.

#primedeal #amazonstrike #reminder

James Lovelock: A.I. is a new form of life.
Me:

🍗 🤯 🥕 "the Marrot"

The Beeswarm plot turned out to be more or less what I needed. One axis constrained, one with collision.

https://bl.ocks.org/chloerulesok/e45c8bb1241c4f6051ef30623e6fe552

This is a level of #dataviz failure I may be willing to live with.

#dataisugly

#dataisugly

Fail a bit less, keep failing
#dataisugly

#d3 #dataviz #help #mastohelp

Fail hard, fail harder
#dataisugly

#d3 #dataviz #help #mastohelp

I gave a keynote at the Mixit conference in Lyon last night:
'Hyperland, a scam in n-dimensions' my adaptation of 'Flatland, a romance of many dimensions' to talk about data and machine learning.
Full write up coming soon.

Many thanks @ingrid and @Bopuc@twitter.com
for letting me borrow their diagrams.

the original Flatland: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201
Burrington's Theory of scamming: https://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/1118539791484637188
Anthony's diagram of the vectorialist class: https://borisanthony.net/diagrams/vectorialism/