Video_Viz “A story is just data with a soul.” - Brene Brown With Jeff Weakley
Jun 23, 2015
Video_Viz
“A story is just data with a soul.”- Brene Brown
With Jeff Weakley
Stuff about me.
• EntrepreNERD • Launching companies: Chocolate Covered Focus Groups & CreativeAlgorithm.org• Advertising Copywriter / Creative Director in Los Angeles for over 25 years
• Even won an Emmy for my work
Stuff about me.
• Graduated UCLA Cinematography extension• Own a small studio worth of cameras, lights, sound
equipment, green screen, etc.• I edit in Final Cut and After Effects
• Coding professionally in English language for over 25 years• Programming Python for about 2 years (very interested
in Natural Language Processing Toolkit) • Studying R, intensely, for about 4 months• I have SO MUCH to learn
My Mission
My Mission
My Mission
Poor Communication == Death
Data Visualization has two purposes:
• 1) Exploring data and trying to extract a story from it.
• 2) Communicating that insight to an audience. Bringing it to life for them.
Video is AWESOME for both.
Chocolate Giveaway
How does it feel to be coerced into a matrix?
And the winner is Row=3, Col=8
Charting the Social Media Graph
Sample approximates ~ Population
Video brings EMOTION to Visualization.Video lets you “scrape” the real world.
Adobe Premiere editing software == text searchable - NoSQL BLOB Database?
Big Tools NOT Necessary
• iPhone and Android shoot amazing video• You can edit on your phone or in iMovie
• R lets you output your charts as image files• And Quicktime 7 “Image Sequence” command
lets you turn multiple images into video
“I'm not going to get married again, I think I'll just find a woman that hates me, and buy her a house.” -- Willie Nelson
Video IS… BIG DATAEvery movie shoot has a “Data Wrangler”.
Answer Anybody?
library(shitload)require(shitload)
We all remember the wordsof Preacher Bayes.
Bayes Paraphrased
• People have a PRIOR BELIEF
• They gain INFORMATION and insight and UPDATE that Belief
• People then have a POSTERIOR BELIEF
Every Advertising Creative Brieffor the last 30 years.
• What belief does the consumer have now? (PRIOR BELIEF)
• What INFORMATION can we tell them about the product or service?
• What belief do we want them to have? (POSTERIOR BELIEF)
Good data/Information/Writing/Video is SPECIFIC
• “3 people walk into someplace”does NOT lead to funny.
• Isaac Newton, Pierre de Fermat and René Descartes walk into a bar. The bartender asks them if they want a beer.
Descartes says "I think not”.
And he disappears.
ChocolateCoveredFocusGroups.com
• I would love to work with Data Scientist, Tech Companies, Strategic Planners, Ad agencies…
• Most tech companies could really use somebody to translate their brilliance into “Human”.
• I work in that language.
• You name it, I’ve done it. TV, Print, Radio, Direct Response, email, interactive, social And, of course, Video. Let’s talk.