March 31st, 2013

Data Is Not Killing Creativity, It’s Just Changing How We Tell Stories

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I keep seeing this topic push up about how data is affecting creativity. Some say we are losing our sense of narration and storytelling. It’s not this at all. We are just experiencing a shift that other civilizations have faced when the traditional means for storytelling transform to give a sense of the changing times facing society. That does not mean a rejection of the narrative form. The… → Read More

January 16th, 2013

Founder Stories: Cloudera’s Jeff Hammerbacher On Building Big Data Systems

Recently, I had the Founder and Chief Scientist of Cloudera, Jeff Hammerbacher, over to the studio to talk about his experience building out big data systems for Facebook. He explained to me how the lack of commercially available data storage and analysis inspired him to start Cloudera. → Read More

March 13th, 2010

The New Museum Brings Together Seven Artists With Seven Engineers (50 Discount Tickets)

What happens when you pair seven visual artists with seven engineers and technologists? The New Museum in New York City is about to find out. An upcoming exhibit called Seven On Seven will put together artists and programmers for one day and tell them to come up with something together. It could be an application, a work of art, a full-blown product, or anything they want. Some of the… → Read More