Hi, I’m David Gurman.
Data Artist Entrepreneur,
Co-Founder, CEO and CPO of KAYA.

An Artist and Entrepreneur at heart, I’m passionate about creating opportunities for people to celebrate and learn from each other. Right now you’ll find me working on KAYA Climb as Co Founder CEO and CPO, raising my two amazing kids and dirty rock climbing somewhere remote and beautiful.

I’ve been working at the intersection of Human Computer Interaction, Experience Design, Data Science, Analytics, Visualization, Art and Entrepreneurship since 1999. Presently this takes the form of KAYA, an app for Rock Climbers, but not too long ago I Co Founded Vibrant Data, an app for visualizing and analyzing communities, with TED Fellow Speakers Eric Berlow PhD and Kaustuv Debiswas PhD. Vibrant Data was acquired by Rakuten in 2016. We built a platform for exploring data, now open sourced, anyone can use it! Other times my work takes the shape of art installations, “real-time memorials” - like a bell hung in a Church robotically tolling hourly once for each civilian killed in a war zone - a place to remember, contemplate and discuss.

This site is a work in progress where I catalog adventures past, present, future.

Here is a short Bio:

Data Artist Entrepreneur David Gurman is the Co-Founder CEO and CPO for KAYA Climb and was Co-founder and Chief Design Officer at Vibrant Data. David builds experiences that surface hidden and meaningful connections in data to help people make informed decisions. The art installations he has created are “real-time memorials” that use live data feeds and citizen reportage from conflict zones to create immersive realtime experiences.

David has received grants and fellowships from TED, National Endowment for the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, the Eureka Fellowship, the Fleishhacker Foundation, the Wattis Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. His work has been shown and acquired by international museums. His design work has been recognized by the FWA, WordPress, and Communication Arts. David's work has been written about in Politico, New York Times Lens Blog, BookForum, The Daily Beast and TIME.

Here is an interview with Gurman in Wired UK.

Here is an interview on TED.

Here is his TED Profile.

Here is a paper I am Co Author on “Creative Diversity: Patterns in the Creative Habits of ~10,000 People”.