Instructor

Karol Piekarski

Founder and programme director at Medialab Katowice, freelance researcher, Python and Linux enthusiast. Author of Data-Driven Methods for City Research and Exploration (2015) and Data Culture. Attention Enhancing Algorithms (2017, in Polish).

He has led several interdisciplinary research projects involving data processing and visualisation, e.g. Data for Culture within the Shared Cities: Creative Momentum platform diagnosing cultural and social trends in Central Europe.

He holds a PhD in Humanities for his work on the economy of perception and strategies for reducing information overload.