The Gamma

Democratizing Data Science





Tomas Petricek, The Alan Turing Institute
@tomaspetricek | tomasp.net | thegamma.net

Welcome to the post-fact world

In recent years, divergent levels of trust in statistics has become one of the key schisms that have opened up in western liberal democracies.

William Davies, The Guardian, January 2017

Can the result be reproduced?

Is the visualization misleading?

Can it be done by non-experts?

Can the reader explore further?

The Gamma

DEMO

Understanding carbon emissions

Language that understands data

Simple programming using dot

Dot-driven data exploration

DEMO

Visualizing Olympic medals

Constructing queries via members

Providing only valid operations

Unifying programming and spreadsheets

Making data more engaging

DEMO

Guess the government expenditure

Interactivity for engagement

Adapt to be more relevant

Summary

Make facts great again!

Technology democratized opinions

Can it also democratize facts?






Tomas Petricek, tomas@tomasp.net
@tomaspetricek | thegamma.net | tomasp.net