14/ Unexpected places, spatial journalism talk, GPT interns
The next member talk on spatial storytelling in December.
Welcome to the 14th issue of Nuanced Narratives.
Last we took an in-depth look at GPT’s Advanced Data Analysis feature with demos from Zhutian Chen, here were some key insights:
How can we use GPT Advanced Data Analysis? As an intern to support you in the coarse exploration stage and to prepare code boilerplates.
What are the most promising opportunities enabled by GPT in data journalism? Data analysis has never been easier, GPT can also quickly generate powerful narratives from data insights. With the usability of LLMs continuing to significantly improve, the flexibility of the inputs and outputs should continue to evolve rapidly.
The next talk will be in December with Tim Clark, discussing design for spatial journalism before the release of Apple Vision Pro in January. Tim worked as creative lead for the New York Times, contributing to the R&D team’s experiments into open world journalism.
If you’d like to join you can sign up to the free tier of the membership on Patreon!
Inspiration
This month's award goes to Alvin Chang and The Pudding's 24 hours in an invisible epidemic. It's a story, a dashboard, a timeline, a living chart. It's all of those things and more, likely one of my all-time favourites projects. With the added benefit that it deals with an important, yet incredibly complex issue.
A special mention to Anton and Irene's Only 8%, using a map of Barcelona to spatially communicate gender differences in street names.
Insights
This month I had the pleasure of interviewing Martina Nadal from Domestic Data Streamers. They produce incredible exhibitions and data experiments that are a wonderful source of inspiration.
You can watch the video highlights from the interview or read the summarised transcript, including a couple excerpts below.
On using interaction to trigger personal memories:
Transform statistics into real human experiences. Make data more relatable by asking questions that start meaningful conversations, triggering memories that take people to unexpected places.
On diversity in production:
Sometimes going too fast alone is also waste of time. Sometimes not listening to the right people, to the diversity of people within the right moment of the project is a waste of time. I think about our work as if we would be like an orchestra, and we would be like all creating this beautiful masterpiece. And if we all play at the same time, it's a f-ing mess. But if we manage well to play in harmony, it can sound beautiful and that's a constant challenge.
Obsessions
Latest curations from my internet garden.
The making of Atlo’s The Pope on the Road, an AI-driven visual essay.
Lex Friedman and Marc Zuckerberg’s interview in the metaverse
Sponsor - Information+ Conference
This issue is sponsored by the Information+ Conference! Taking place in Edinburgh from the 22nd to the 24th of November, it's a great place (and time) to mingle and meet experts from the community and discuss new trends.
Hope to see you there!
