Roundtable with Vinay Venktraman
A roundtable with Vinay Venktraman concerning data driven innovation at co-lab NishiAzabu.
2014-11-05 19:15:55The event started with Vinay just freshly arriving in Tokyoz pic.twitter.com/1ewnPDuxAd
2014-11-05 19:18:23Now everyone is introducing themselves around to warm up the floor! @Republic_inc
2014-11-05 19:20:49Co-founders @tamdai99 @furbiko hosting the event today, Vinay Venkatraman talking about "data-driven human-centric innovation".
2014-11-05 19:25:23If you have any questions, use the hashtag #ddhci and we'll ask them during the event.
2014-11-05 19:26:14Vinay goes back to his days as being an industrial designer, and cofounder of CIID: Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.
2014-11-05 19:27:41Vinay introduces his company Leapcraft, a user-centered data driven innovation company.
2014-11-05 19:29:09Vinay: 1907 - #Bakelite was invented, and it radically altered the design industry. #ddhci en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite
2014-11-05 19:29:55Goes back the time to 1907: a year when Bakelite was invented and consequently how a black Ericsson home phone came to life.
2014-11-05 19:30:22Now we have a new raw material for designers: data.
2014-11-05 19:31:32Vinay: a new raw material for designers - data. #ddhci
2014-11-05 19:31:48While the participants are enjoying their drinks and food, allow me to remind that we're co-hosting this event with @ConcentInc - great!
2014-11-05 19:38:42Vinay introduces a project for Copenhagen city to model a traffic FOR BICYCLES. #ddhci
2014-11-05 19:38:47Project CITS enables to detect geographical locations of people through devices w/o compromising the privacy #ddhci
2014-11-05 19:43:13Intelligent traffic modelling helps cities in streamlining their transportation infrastructure for their citizens' benefits. #ddhci
2014-11-05 19:45:33Healthcare being a large cost for the government, public sector looks at how data could help for better & cost effective healthcare #ddhci
2014-11-05 19:47:16To recap, Vinay is talking about how designers could and are using data as one of their raw material. Provocative, and exciting! #ddhci
2014-11-05 19:49:20Question by @sasokunitake : what kind of tools do you use? Vinay: we develop our own software to analyze, twist, and bed #bigdata . #ddhci
2014-11-05 19:51:55An interesting and fascinating data which shows the hospital users by age, gender and season. #ddhci
2014-11-05 19:56:52"Data never lies. But data can tell all kinds of truth." - Vinay #ddhci
2014-11-05 19:57:42"Data maybe science but how to show to tell what is an art." #ddhci
2014-11-05 19:59:06If you want to know more about Vinay's work at Leapcraft, go to leapcraft.dk #ddhci
2014-11-05 20:01:44Vinay: connecting "what" - designers, politicians, etc. - with "how" - coders, mathematicians, etc. We need connections btwn them. #ddhci
2014-11-05 20:03:12Vinay describes how he develops courses to train individuals who have skills for user centered data driven design #ddhci
2014-11-05 20:04:33Q: with a bunch of people w/ diff backgrounds, how do you deal with teams and forming them? #ddhci
2014-11-05 20:05:11