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... It was actually an interesting event. The idea, as ~ said, was to very selfconsciously pair artists and researchers together, and this will actually get to streaming data in a moment, ~ promise.
From page 212...
... Our group had been looking at things like call detail records. ~ am sure Dary]
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... 213 people on the site were browsing deeper and getting more interesting things. So, we created a kind of mapping of sorts that generated drones for sort of high-level browsing.
From page 214...
... .. unclerstanulng, or tap into tills olg stream and sort of experience tills in some way that perhaps is a little bit more accessible to the general public than just a plot or a graph or something like that.
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... 215 hour. There were four speakers, one in each corner of the room, and in the white bar at the top was a very large screen, about 20 feet tall, 20 feet wide.
From page 216...
... This is the kind of thing that end up coming up from the map scene that ~ will show you in a minute. To generate all this, ~ guess ~ should give a little bit of talk about the stream itself.
From page 217...
... 217 installation. Then ~ have some production pictures.
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... 218 messy. Our audience isn't a technical expert, per se, but the general public, and how you create kind of data analyses bases, in a way, that speak immediately to the general public.
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... 219 was extremely important to them, that it be live, and that it be -- that the process from data to display was legible, and you weren't kind of tampering with it. There was some notion of unbiased-ness that came out there that they didn't really have the words for, but it was clef~nitely there.
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... AUDENCE: ~ would point out that the accelerator -- toff microphone] -- if it deviates one little bit, you notice it.
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... 221 So, we asked the people who make the text-to-speech engines. Well, we have had a lot of problems with her.
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... 222 that was just really hard to get through. Then, like ~ saint, there was this privileging concept, and legibility seems really important.


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