Florian is passionate about observing and studying human behavior. His guiding principle is simple: the idea comes first; technical constraints come later. After all, walls are meant to be broken.
For example, he wrote every single day—when he went to bed, woke up, worked, and so on—for an entire year, just to uncover hidden patterns. He scraped every post from an online forum on a controversial topic (women in video games) to analyze how conversations unfold. He even transcribed a two-hour political TV debate to study manterrupting. No limits, no walls.
Then comes his favorite part: experimenting with data visualization. As a data analyst, he dives into data from a statistical perspective to identify trends. Then he codes his own visualizations from scratch, testing and iterating to discover new, creative ways of telling a story.
He truly believes that data visualization can make stories more powerful—revealing what’s hidden, explaining what’s really happening, and shining a light on the unseen. Finally, the aesthetic side of his work is a way to move people. Data can be tough and overwhelming, and art makes it more human, more engaging, and easier to grasp.
"Le temps qui nous manque" (the time we miss). Read the full project description.
Florian presented his first project "L'espace des paroles", a 3.5 meters-long dataviz, as part of Datarama #6 during the Nantes Digital Week in France, in September 2021 — an exhibition co-organized by Florian and dedicated to the theme of network visualization. The event brought together eight artists and researchers from cities such as Nantes, Paris, Milan, and Montréal, all exploring how data can become a creative medium.
Florian and his giant dataviz at the Nantes Digital Week expo. Nantes. 2021.
An exploration of the author own life data, where he visualized his sleep, work, and daily rhythms in dozens of creative, experimental ways to reveal hidden patterns.
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