Authors: Marion Brülls, Mara Pometti, Ellice Heintze Originally published on IBM Design Data is everywhere. Yet, it’s not always clear how to create meaningful content that drives action and decisions using data: the lack of a cohesive story connecting the data is the problem. At IBM, we have experimented with…

How can AI help us discover new ways to create and tell stories? — Explaining AI with visual narratives I heard a song recently on one of Spotify’s curated “Made for You” playlists, and it hit me that I hadn’t heard that particular song in ages. I used to listen to it constantly and Spotify didn’t even exist back then. How could its algorithm possibly have known it was…

The word ethics –coming from the ancient Greek word ἦθος, meaning habits, character — was first used by Aristotle, in the effort of creating a new philosophical branch from the arguments originated by his predecessors, Socrate and Plato. Aristotle’s attempt with the study of ethics was to offer a rational…

In today’s culture where everything we do involves data, it’s easy to forget that the ultimate goal of using data is to produce new information that can improve our life with enlightening insights: how we then organize and translate that information to make it consumable is an essential part of…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming the Holy Grail of the business world and companies big and small should embrace it to avoid falling behind in this competitive age ruled by tremendous technological changes. …

When Data Meet Fashion — Data lie in every aspect of our daily life, even in what we wear; this is why I used data coming from the world of fashion to tell people the story of what is happening to our mother Earth because of our clothes. I have been always interested in data and the way they serve journalism. That is why I chose to focus my Journalism Master’s thesis on a data journalism project that involves data visualizations and data-driven interactives. Yet my main intention was to create content that connects people with data they…

Wenjia Wang is a 24-year-old graduate student enrolled in the Data Informatics program at USC Viterbi School of Engineering. When we first talked she seemed very excited to start a collaboration with us: three graduate journalism students studying at USC Annenebrg School of Communication and Journalism. We will be working…