Katy Börner - Networks, noticing what we don't expect, and an atlas for navigating our world

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Katy Börner is one of the great mappers of our age. Her maps tell the history of science, trace how communication has evolved from the stone age to modern day, and reveal the connections across our society. In her work, all of these things become visual and interactive. That is to say she is the perfect person to talk to in this age when complexity lurks behind the most intractable issues facing our society and demands new ways of witnessing them.
Show Notes:

• Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit (07:00)
  • Helping anyone find their place in science
  • The value and beauty and complexity of science
• Trajectory of a person's education (09:30)
  • Martin Storksdieck Origins Episode
• Interactive data visualization (10:30)
• Long view of time (11:45)
• The ubiquity and importance of networks (14:45 and 21:00)
• How we map what we don't know (16:15)
• Human BioMolecular Atlas Program Consortium (HuBMAP) - map the human body at a single-cell resolution (16:50)
  • Human Cell Atlas Project
  • HuBMAP massive open online course (MOOC)
• Douglas Hofstadter and Indiana University Cognitive Science Program (22:00)
• Indiana University Advanced Visualization Lab (22:10)
• Mentorship and advice (23:20)
• The Atlas series of books (27:00)
  • Atlas of Science: Visualizing what we know
  • Atlas of Knowledge: Anyone can map
  • Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures
• Capacity for communication (36:00)
• Organization and curation (36:10)
• Team science (36:30)
• Networks and network science (43:00)
  • Indiana University Network Science Institute
• Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall (45:00)
• Morning Routine (45:30)
• Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit (47:00)
• Lightning Round (49:00)
  • Book: Edward Tufte
  • Passion: Cooking
  • Heart Sing: Atlas of the human body
  • Screwed up: Impatience and the impact it has on certain people/relationships
• Find guest online:
  • Website
  • Twitter: @katycns
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
  • Katy’s playlist