He has created countless infographics (click here to see a selection of recent work in Delayed Gratification magazine), including the winner of the silver prize for data visualisation at this year's Information is Beautiful awards.
MH 6.59pm BST Our PULITZER PRIZE winning data journalist James Ball has been at the festival all weekend.
Ten years ago, the Netflix Prize used data and science to change recommendation engines for the better.
Lowe prizes objective data, but he also believes in the artist's eye.
Anandkumar et al. presented a novel formulation for optimal sensor selection and in-network fusion for distributed inference known as the prize-collecting data fusion in terms of optimal trade-off between the costs of aggregating the selected set of sensor measurements and the resulting inference performance at the fusion center in [11].
In the nineteen-fifties, Simon Kuznets, who went on to win a Nobel Prize, used tax data to study the shares of income among groups, an approach that was further developed by the British economist Anthony Atkinson, beginning with his 1969 paper "On the Measurement of Inequality," in the Journal of Economic Theory.
In addition to the prize money and data, they use Kaggle to meet, network and collaborate with experts from related fields.
Particularly fascinating are his explorations of the strategies behind Google and Apples investment in the Internet of Things through devices such as wearables and smartphones, which he reveals are Trojan horses for their gold rush to own the higher prize of invisible data.
It is therefore impossible to determine whether the effect is "small for all" or a few are winning "the big prize" from empirical data [ 8].
Voyage of Time, in the end, is a perhaps an aesthetic experience rather than an particularly informative one, prizing images over data; but what images they are.
