E143 - The Art of Data

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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September 2022

Earlier this year in April 2022, Bletchley Park opened a new temporary exhibition in a brand new gallery. The Art of Data explores how data can be visualised to reveal patterns and stories, helping us understand the world around us. The exhibition includes WW2 visualisations alongside a whole variety of striking contemporary examples, shown in objects, pictures, films and interactive displays. Visitors are invited to question the data they encounter, and take part in building their own visualisations in the gallery.

In this episode, you are invited to join me, Bletchley Park’s Exhibitions Manager Erica Munro, on a tour through the gallery. You’ll also hear from two experts who worked on the exhibition, Elin Simonsson and Andy Kirk.

Image: ©Bletchley Park Trust 2022

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The From the home of the codebreakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:39.1	Welcome to this additional episode of the Bletchley Park podcast. Welcome to this additional episode of the Bletchley Park podcast, The Art of Data.
0:45.3	In April 2022, Bletchley Park opened a new temporary exhibition in a brand new gallery.
0:52.4	The art of data explores how data can be visualised
0:55.3	to reveal patterns and stories
0:57.3	helping us understand the world around us.
0:59.7	The exhibition includes World War II visualisations
1:02.2	alongside a whole variety of striking contemporary examples
1:05.6	shown in objects, pictures, films and interactive displays.
1:10.3	Visitors are invited to question the data they encounter
1:13.0	and to take part in building our own visualisations in the gallery.
1:17.5	In this episode, you were invited to join me,
1:20.3	Bletchley Park's Exhibitions Manager Erica Munro on a tour through the gallery.
1:24.7	You'll also hear from two experts who worked with us on the exhibition,
1:28.2	Ellen Simonson and Andy Kirk.
1:38.3	We stood outside the final spur in the recently renovated Block A and I've got Erica Monroe our
1:45.7	exhibitions manager with me who's going to give us a guided tour which is
1:50.1	well overdue of the other exhibition that opened earlier this year Erica take us
1:55.4	through to the art of data I will do on a guided adventure through the gallery, I will try and paint a
2:02.2	picture with words of what is in the gallery. After you've come through the intelligence
2:06.4	factory, this is very different, it's very modern, it's very bright, isn't it? Is that on purpose?
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