Don't ask me why. Fern . Fern , perfect. The giant female Fernandina Island tortoise that you and your team found, and the only other confirmed Fernandina Giant tortoise
And so to them, when I got there, they gave me a ,, which is-- Fern ández. That would be a great gift for me.
The guys who made it just went silent. Ferndale. Those are all parks that we helped to facilitate.
And with that introduction, I'd like to introduce Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas, who are-- other person: Viegas, is that the way you pronounce it? Fernanda: Yes, yes. Josh: who have for many years been, been among the forefront of scientists in data visualization and who are artists in this area as well and who I have been delighted
Which means I get to work with them. And they're here to talk to you about their work and their ideas and I won't say anything more. Fernanda: Great. Martin: Great. Fernanda: Thanks, Josh. So, we thought we'd give you a sense of a lot of different projects.
Fernanda: Great. Martin: Great. Fernanda: Thanks, Josh. So, we thought we'd give you a sense of a lot of different projects. We're gonna end up today, tonight talking about the project that we have on the side,
Martin: It's a pretty important question. Fernanda: Here. Ok. Josh: . Fernanda: So, let's say I type "Why doesn't he," right? And basically, what I'm doing there is I'm visualizing exactly the same information that Google was showing me before,
Fernanda: Here. Ok. Josh: . Fernanda: So, let's say I type "Why doesn't he," right? And basically, what I'm doing there is I'm visualizing exactly the same information that Google was showing me before, except that now, dealing with size and thicknesses of arrows. So, the bigger the font the more people are asking, the more popular that query is. But then the other fun thing I can do
Martin: Do I need the microphone or if I talk like this am I? Fernanda: I think they're being-- Martin: We're being recorded. All right. I'll just do something like, ok. So, let's look at the post dating phase and let's see. Let's think about husbands and wives, say, and "Why." What other phrase should we do? "Why is-- Fernanda: Or, "is my." Martin: Yeah. Let's do that, let's, let's look at what people are asking about sort
But it also becomes a pretty interesting window into what's going on in the world. Fernanda: So, continuing on with the family life theme, how about turning to kids? "Is my son" versus "Is my daughter." And you can get a sense of the difference, different anxieties that parents have depending on the gender of their kids.
was by far the largest worry. Fernanda: And "Is my daughter pregnant?"-- Martin: Yeah. Fernanda: was the other-- Martin: I think there's-- there's definitely, I think there's something going on. You can also ask sort of more meta
Fernanda: And "Is my daughter pregnant?"-- Martin: Yeah. Fernanda: was the other-- Martin: I think there's-- there's definitely, I think there's something going on. You can also ask sort of more meta questions. Let's take a look at, "How to be" and we can see the things that people want
Martin: Makes you wonder. Fernanda: Right, yeah. Absolutely. So, because no demo is complete without politics, we can now ask, "Are democrats" versus "Are republicans." And you get a sense of the confusion around-- Martin: But there are things that we could look for points of dif-, disagreement or agreement.
Powerpoint. Where are you? Fernanda: Is it doing thing? Martin: There. There we go. All right. So, our first project together was, was visualizing Wikipedia. And this was back in 2003 when Wikipedia was fresh and new. No one quite
texts behind each versions. The question is what does that look like when you actually apply that to real data? Fernanda: Ok. So, so this is history flow and what we're looking at right now is the evolution of the article on design on Wikipedia. And I have this little wand here that I can
Martin: to speak to people. Fernanda: Can you hear me? Josh: Yes. Fernanda: Ok. Oh, this is better. I can hear myself. So, if I move my little wand I can see how the text of the article here changes. And I can just follow the evolution
Martin: I think they're called CrowdFlower now. Fernanda: They changed. And this is what our interface looked like. So, basically what we would do is we would show you the person and then we would highlight different parts of the body of the person and you would tell us, "Oh, that would be really great to touch." Or, "That would, that would be a really great place to be touched on." And then we got that
data in-- Martin: The scale was one apple to seven apples. Fernanda: That's right. And so, oh, lemme go back and lemme show you how that actually works. Ok. So, we decided to visualize the data in a couple of ways. So, this is a place where we do sort of heat maps and this is all available on fleshmap.com. You can go here and click on compare and these
can see the first year it was just a bi-monthly magazine. Left to right are months, so December is at the left and, and January are, January is at the left and December is at the right. Fernanda: And-- Martin: Oh. Fernanda: I was just gonna say these are, this is 15 years worth of Wired Magazine covers.
Fernanda: And-- Martin: Oh. Fernanda: I was just gonna say these are, this is 15 years worth of Wired Magazine covers. Martin: And then when you can kind of reduce them into this poster and you can start to see sort of interesting patterns. I mean, besides the fact that it's, it can be kind
Martin: That actually reflects a circulation at the time so that this was another sort of layer to the piece that they wanted. Fernanda: So, to continue on with our fascination with color, we got very interested in this notion of extracting the peaks of colors from images. Now, one of the things that happens here on the Wired Magazine covers is that we are aggregating so much that we are reducing an entire cover, an entire image to a single circle, right? To a single series of concentric
for six years now I've taught at uh CBS a workshop and it's called the diversity workshop and I do it with a wonderful woman Fern orstein who's U vice president of casting and through all the support of CBS they have me do a show once a year and 4,000 people apply maybe 3,000 actually audition of that I choose
special because they're associated with me right okay so we love ourselves but how far-reaching is this self-love um just Fern aside here for a minute uh you know I was looking for pictures and I typed self love into my Google image search uh boy was that a mistake I did not have my safe search on
We are undoubtedly going to be the freest country in the world. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner got a sentence for corruption.
Today, we're hosting Luis Fernando Garcia. Luis Fernando Garcia is the director for the ,, which broadly translates to English as the Digital Right Network. And they're tasked with defending the digital rights in Mexico.
over time. Pythons, and elephants, Redwood trees, and lotuses, ancient tyrannosauruses, saber toothed tigers, and ferns whose origin spread back 350 million years in their origins. We human beings, we homo sapiens, have only been here for a blip in time in the history of Mother Gaia.
Rich Fernandez: Hello everyone. audience: Hi. Rich Fernandez : Welcome. I'm Rich Fernandez from the Learning and Development Team here at Google. So about six months ago we wrote a letter to Eckhart Tolle inviting him to
Don't ask me why. a genetic relationship between Fern , Fernanda, I don't know what her nickname was.
Don't ask me why. It's why Fern is on the cover of my book, because that's the first extinct animal I literally held in my hands.
Don't ask me why. we named her Fern -- with the single specimen that was collected by the California Academy of Sciences in 1914.
I love the beauty of Yosemite. That's our Fern Spring we go to all the time.
And Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Lightning Fields" project deliberately harks back to earlier technological experimentation, like Etienne Leopold turning and sending out fern -like tendrils of new growth in swirling water.
it this is going on YouTube isn't it you guys I think if you've been watching Project Runway have been exposed to Fern malice who is sort of the Godmother Fashion Week and created the idea that that all of this should come together in one big unit and with
So, these days, there are enough Latin American gothic books to fill your local library. Just check out Fernanda Melchor’s “Hurricane Season,” Liliana Colanzi’s “You Glow in the Dark,” Maria Fernanda Ampuero’s “Human Sacrifices,” and Dolores Reyes’s “Eartheater.” The genre’s become so popular that some folks have gone so far as to call it “the new boom,”
Elsewhere, Native folks are incorporating their languages into music. Like Wade Fernandez, a singer-songwriter from the Menominee Nation. His song Sawaenemiyah, or "We are Blessed," combines contemporary melodies with his traditional Menominee language.
My name is Jennifer Fernick.
It's like ferns and trees, and there's-- I walked out the other day, and there were two bald eagles sitting on top of my garage.
Don't ask me why. We went to Fernandina Island, which is basically a living hell.
Neal Karski and Melanie Fernando.
Thank you for Google to invite me. I'm Luis Fernando Garcia. And I'm the director of ,, a digital rights defense network from Mexico.
So from ferns and the way they grow to succulents.
He owns the Oakland Ferndale, so sort of like a speakeasy cocktail bar kind of thing.
and his grad student Fernando Caro-- Fernando, would you raise your hand?
And so Fernando came up with the concept and says, you know what?
And Luis Fernandez, who was an example for me, because he was playing in the same position.
He named it Fernandina, anchoring on the Caribbean side of what became known as Cape Santa Maria.
We also have Antonio Fernandez, who I mentioned earlier, who was the leader of the Latin Kings, and David Victorson, who smuggled 37 tons of marijuana
His name is Fernando Flores.
But the one thing that was profound for me is that I was coming into Yosemite on my motorcycle, a little Honda 250, just cruising. And I went past this thing called Fern Spring. And I was coming around the corner.
to fertilize an egg the fern become a life again I mean their lives but then