Fernanda Viegás: Interview Excerpts from CLOUDS (2014)
Channel: The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
Date: 2023-04-06

This video presents excerpts of raw interview footage from CLOUDS (2014). Directed by Jae Minard and James George, CLOUDS is an interactive, generative, computational documentary that allows the viewer to explore different perspectives on the intersection of code and culture. Filmed using the RGBD 3D cinema format and created entirely with open-source software, CLOUDS uses a data-driven story engine to present an endless, ever-changing conversation about the role of computational thinking in contemporary arts and design. More information is at cloudsdocumentary.com.

Fernanda Viegás (@viegasf) focuses on the social, collaborative, and artistic aspects of information visualization. She is known for her pioneering work on depicting chat histories, email archives, and Wikipedia activity. She earned a PhD from the MIT Media Lab, focusing on the visualization of online communities. After founding 'Flowing Media' she and collaborator, Martin Wattenberg, now lead Google's 'Big Picture' data visualization group. [2014 Biography]

00:05 1. had to explain that the web was social
00:20 2. History flow 1
00:38 3. History flow 2
01:02 4. A social lens
01:16 5. History flow 3
01:46 6. History flow 4
02:04 7. seeing patterns 1
02:38 8. seeing patterns 2
03:18 9. Wind visualization 1
04:14 10. Wind visualization 2
04:34 11. visualized data doesn't seem complex
04:43 12. defense of complexity 1
05:24 13. defense of complexity 2
05:46 14. social network hairballs
06:49 15. Google plus 2
07:56 16. Googe plus 2
08:30 17. zooming in
09:16 18. Tag clouds
09:39 19. What people are thinking
10:23 20. viral videos
10:42 21. teens give birth to memes
11:10 22. Sentiment analysis
11:19 23. Viral pattern 1
12:02 24. Viral pattern 2
12:32 25. Replaying the moment of discovery
13:00 26. Social dynamics
13:25 27. mainstreaming of data viz
13:51 28. art science spectrum
14:10 29. hybrid community
14:35 30. nytimes graphics
15:06 31. Policy and data
16:03 32. Personal data
16:36 33. email storytelling
16:53 34. quantified self
17:26 35. non numerical visualization
18:01 36. what do we mean by data
18:10 37. fleshmap1
18:30 38. fleshmap2
19:07 39. fleshmap 3
19:50 40. what is data
20:00 41. curiosity

Directors: Jae Minard and James George
Executive Producer: Golan Levin (CMU)
Producer: Winslow Porter
Design Director: Bradley G Munkowitz