February 13, 2012

Lev Manovich on Big Data and Collaboration
Davidson Conference Center (Club Room) , 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

As part of the Creativity & Collaboration in the Academy initiative, the USC Office of Research and the Norman Lear Center present Lev Manovich, professor in Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego; and director of the Software Studies Initiative at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.

The availability of massive amounts of data together with the tools for their analysis is having transformative effects in many fields -- from business to science, from government to the arts. Manovich created the Software Studies Initiative at UC San Diego to explore the theoretical consequences of using computation methods for the study of culture, and to develop techniques and software tools that enable humanists and social scientists to work with massive visual data sets. He will discuss how the “big data” paradigm creates new opportunities and challenges for collaboration between disciplines. He will also provide examples from his Software Studies Initiative, including visualizations of one million pages of manga (Japanese comics), all issues of Science and Popular Science from 1872-1922, and other cultural data sets.

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