The Creative Process
"Research stories are just data with a soul” Brené Brown
Creative Process
One of the most difficult skills to obtain is the ability to be creative.
8 Steps to Bring Creativity to Data Sciences.
Taking from arts
There is a great series of documentaries on Netflix, Abstract: The Art of Design which chronicles the creative process of eight different artists from eight different disciplines.
Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
Understanding the Artistic Mind
If you look specifically at designers they may not have solution in mind, they iterate through the process. They leave the final solution open ended, so there is a level of interpretation.
Statistics is inherently flawed.
So much is missed by only considering the middle portion of a bell curve. These are the golden nuggets of the data.
Hide Complexity
Collaborate with an Artist
Collaboration is an attempt to learn from each other.
I was raised by an artist.
When I was still an undergraduate student, I hand wrote a solution manual for a Calculus textbook which I later sold. My mother looked at all my notes with a sense of curiosity said to me, "What can you do if you know this?" She would later say to me, "Swiss cheese has more meaning to life than mathematics."
Museums, Music Documentaries, Documentaries on Artist.
I am driven by the hope that I have not done best work yet.
One of the most difficult skills to obtain is the ability to be creative.
8 Steps to Bring Creativity to Data Sciences.
- Put the human at the beginning of the process and be empathetic. Data science needs to take human behavior into account.
- Start with I don't know and a humble curiosity.
- Take freely from other disciplines such as mathematics, computer science, economics, psychology, statistics and of course art.
- Try to be in a state of discovery and playfulness.
- Break away from routine. The problem with routine is everything starts looking the same.
- Use analogies and metaphors.
- Put it together in a way that is informative, elegant and fun.
Taking from arts
There is a great series of documentaries on Netflix, Abstract: The Art of Design which chronicles the creative process of eight different artists from eight different disciplines.
Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
Understanding the Artistic Mind
If you look specifically at designers they may not have solution in mind, they iterate through the process. They leave the final solution open ended, so there is a level of interpretation.
Statistics is inherently flawed.
So much is missed by only considering the middle portion of a bell curve. These are the golden nuggets of the data.
Hide Complexity
Collaborate with an Artist
Collaboration is an attempt to learn from each other.
I was raised by an artist.
When I was still an undergraduate student, I hand wrote a solution manual for a Calculus textbook which I later sold. My mother looked at all my notes with a sense of curiosity said to me, "What can you do if you know this?" She would later say to me, "Swiss cheese has more meaning to life than mathematics."
Museums, Music Documentaries, Documentaries on Artist.
I am driven by the hope that I have not done best work yet.