Jeff Flowers

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Professor at College of San Mateo

Education

I am fascinated by the intersection of art, science, and technology. One of my earliest memories are of watching NOVA and seeing an advert for Edward Tufte’s Data Visualization. It was this moment that I made the internal connections between the aesthetics of data representation as an integral component towards true understanding. My formal training has been in the sciences (Chemistry). I feel that the goal of science is to provide the necessary framework to allow for inquiry that ultimately results in discoveries of a pragmatic nature. My physical sciences background has provided me with a number of skills that I have since been fortunate to be able to apply towards challenges that ...