hunch v data
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A workshop and seminar about 'Hunch v Data' with the students of Hyper Island.TRANSCRIPT
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HUNCH v DATA
Part One: Beta - Alpha
NOTESOne minute to write down what you’ve observed this morning
EYES CLOSED, BREATH.Close your eyes, take five deep breaths
PHONES AWAY.Go for a twenty minute walk. Alone. Without your phone. Don’t stop. Just walk. Go.
HUNCH v DATA
Part Two
EYES CLOSED, BREATH.Close your eyes, feet on the ground, take five deep breaths
NOTESTwo minutes to write down what you observed on your walk
HUNCH v DATA
Part Three: in-out
TALK IN OUTSit in your groups. Each of you talks VERY QUICKLY for one minute (timed) about your project,the client, the brief, the concerns, the hopes, your team, your skills, your personal thoughts, etc
HUNCH v DATA
Part Four: Discussion
HUNCHis instinct.
Gut.Intuition.
Experience.Knowledge
Sub-conscious
DATAis statistics.Information.
Surveys.Analytics.Analysis.
DATAstarts war?
HUNCHIraq never had nuclear weapons.
DATAsaves Astronauts?
Apollo 13Commander, John W. Young
Command Module Pilot, John L. SwigertLunar Module Pilot, Charles M. Duke, Jr
HUNCHthe gut instinct, and quick reactions of the Astronauts helped save
their lives.
DATAmakes Formula One cars faster?
HUNCHThe car doesn’t go faster without a driver.
DATAallows us to better craft inform our clients and their ROI?
HUNCHFace-to-face discussions and understanding the audience helped to
shape this site.
DATAmakes for pretty graphics?
HUNCHThe individual interpretation of any data fuels the instinct.
WHAT IS THE ANSWER STEVE?
HUNCH DATA
REFERENCESRichard Feynman - The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgaw9qe7DEE
Damn Good Advice from George Loishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4s5E-xxwwY
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativityhttp://www.ted.com/Sir Ken Robinson
David McCandless: The beauty of data visualizationhttp://www.ted.com/David McCandless
Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwidehttp://www.ted.com/Tim Burners-Lee
Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?http://www.ted.com/Hans Rosling
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/war data
“I always felt I understood women, which was good, because a lot of what I was doing was instinct, especially in the beginning; we didn’t have any money for market research,”
Natalie Massenet, Founder & Exec-Chairman of Net-a-Porterhttp://www.ft.com/Natalie Massenet
Gap in top tier education is failing a generation of leadershttp://www.ft.com/Educatio Failing