How data can inspire creativity

Recently, I was out to dinner with my wife and a few old friends from my student days at UCLA’s film school—successful writers and directors for film and television, some of the most creative people I know. I was telling them how excited I was to have gotten a ticket to the Eyeo Festival, an annual event about creative coding and the creative potential of data that always sells out in minutes. My friends were perplexed: how could I (and all these other people hungry for Eyeo tickets) possibly be so excited about data? Too often, data is viewed skeptically…

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