Tag Archives: visualization

Morgan’s pinboard for 9 Jan 2015 through 16 Jan 2015

• Tributary – Tributary is an experimental environment for rapidly prototyping visualization code. The environment provides several useful libraries, as well as a simple interface for live code editing. We call these shareable code examples inlets. – (software visualization )
• Semiotics Theories / Signo – Applied Semiotics Theories – – (semiotics theory )
• [toread] New Clues: update to the cluetrain manifesto – – (Manifesto DH )

Morgan’s pinboard for 16 Dec 2014 through 18 Dec 2014

• List of Physical Visualizations – Prime example of curation – open for additions and set up for remixing. Needs an astrolabe. "This page is a chronological list of physical visualizations and related artifacts, curated by Pierre Dragicevic and Yvonne Jansen. Thanks to Fanny Chevalier and our other contributors. If you know of another interesting physical visualization, please submit one! Or post a general comment. – (dh curation data_visualization visualization )
• [toread] Some Idiosyncratic Reflections on Note-Taking in General and ConnectedText in Particular – "Looking back at my history of note-taking, I notice that there were two significant or radical changes in the way, in which I dealt with my notes or research information. The first had to do with the change from the analog to the digital ways of recording notes, thoughts, and ideas. I am sorry to say that this change led at first to a kind of disorientation and many false steps. I was searching for a new "paradigm" of keeping my research notes, but this search led to nothing–all I have from this time are Word files of papers I wrote. Notes, insofar as they exist at all, exist only on paper." – (notetaking wiki ple via:shannon_mattern )
• media archeology – a conversation – CTheory.net – The important stuff is always in the footnotes. "Media archaeology is an approach to media studies that has emerged over the last two decades. It borrows from Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, and Friedrich Kittler, but also diverges from all of these theorists to form a unique set of tools and practices. Media archaeology is not a school of thought or a specific technique, but is as an emerging attitude and cluster of tactics in contemporary media theory that is characterized by a desire to uncover and circulate repressed or neglected media approaches and technologies. Its handful of proponents — including Siegfried Zielinski, Wolfgang Ernst, Thomas Elsaesser, and Erkki Huhtamo — are primarily interested in mobilizing histories and devices that have been sidelined during the construction of totalizing histories of popular forms of communication, including the histories of film, television, and new media. The lost traces of media technologies are deemed important topics to be excavated and studied; "dead" media technologies and idiosyncratic developments reveal important themes, structures, and links in the history of communication that would normally be occluded by more obvious narratives. This includes tracing irregular developments and unconventional genealogies of present-day communication technologies, believing that the most interesting developments often happen in the neglected margins of histories or artifacts." – (dh theory media newmedia )

bookmarks for December 31st, 2012 through January 1st, 2013

• The Corkboard | Enhancing WordPress-as-LMS – – (wordpress lms ple )
• Anthology of European Electronic Literature – Works – – (DH DigitalHumanities digitalpoetics )
• [toread] Census Dotmap – – (visualization )
• Datafication: How the Lens of Data Changes How We See Ourselves – Fair intro to the more complex theme of self- and cultural-construction. – (fyi dat identity erhetoric )

bookmarks for October 17th, 2011

• Paper.li and Penn State University: Reinventing The Lesson Plan – huh? – (none)
• Word clouds considered harmful » Nieman Journalism Lab – fair crit – (en3177 wordcloud visualization )

bookmarks for June 23rd, 2011 through July 29th, 2011

• Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it? – Where data touches rhetorical delivery. A little self-serving (We Are The Guardian), but a good starting point for more investigation. – (data data_analysis visualization journalism prezi )
• Learning Reimagined: Participatory, Peer, Global, Online – Taming a mini-mooc-like environment, with the emphasis on co-learning. – (oer mooc ple )
• Americanisms: 50 of Your Most Noted Examples – – (fyc )
• Stephen Downes: Open Educational Resources: A Definition – This is the way to do it: work towards a genus:species definition (see F/T/W, Ann Berthoff), explaining the rationale behind the choices. – (taxonomy OER definition defining #en3177 )
• OpenLearn – The Open University – OER courses. – (OER )
• CC’s The Power of Open – – (readlater )
• [toread] Post by Robert Scoble: Tips – Yesterday 2:19 PM (edited Yesterday 2:26 PM) A little test – (none)
• Teaching teachers how to teach web media. – Jennifer Jones’ PhD Notebook – An outlined CPD workshop with commentary worth reading. Or commentary on CPD workshops worth reading with an outline of a workshop. – (CDP teaching )
• [toread] MOOCs as ecologies – or – why i work on MOOCs » Dave’s Educational Blog – A step back from the Siemens-Wiley debate. – (MOOC PLE OER )
• [toread] The Technological Dimension of a Massive Open Online Course: The Case of the CCK08 Course Tools | Fini | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning – – (OER MOOC PLE casestudy )
• Do open online courses have a role in educational reform? « Connectivism – Good entry point to the Siemens and WIley debating some of the qualities and position of MOOCs. “the fact that people don’t have the skills to participate in distributed networks for learning and sensemaking is exactly why we need MOOCs.” – (MOOC PLE OER futureofeducation salvation )
• 80 Apps and Resources for Cloud-Based Web Dev – – (wcw )
• Bloggers illuminated by their screens – Dust off your semiotic analysis hats and take a look at these images of bloggers. – (bloggers blogging semiotics en3177 )
• Hyperbole and a Half – Multimodal composition. – (newjournalism multimodal erhetoric )
• Eye blog » (No) end of print. Reports of print’s death have been greatly exaggerated – Overview, with links and artifacts, of the print debate from a print designer’s perspective. – (visualdesign printculture print design )
• Two centuries of propaganda in posters » OWNI.eu, News, Augmented – Extensive collection for A&E – (A&E fyw argument visualliteracy visual_argument )
• FAQ #1 – Advantages of using the Institutional LMS – Draconian policies in the guise of FAQs from U Toronto. It”s all worth looking at for the naive understanding of teaching and learning, for driving pedagogy by administration, and for the nasty way of passing their silliness off as FAQs. A good one: “Students may be disadvantaged if they are required to learn how to use and navigate multiple systems.” Response: Student *will* be disadvantaged if they do not learn to use multiple systems. – (LMS policy commonsense )

bookmarks for May 12th, 2011 through May 13th, 2011

• Ben Fry on visualization future and data literacy – sense and senseability in data viz: it's rhetoric. "I think the real thing that's going to change is that we're going to start understanding that visualization isn't this sort of monolithic thing… I like to look at it a lot like writing. You have novels and poetry and haikus. You know there's lots of different types of writing and styles of writing — and I think the same thing happens in visualization… some things are tools for analysis and some things are purely for entertainment, and there's not so much a spectrum that there is different ways of addressing it." – (visualization )
• Microstorytelling // Brevity is the soul of wit – Jennifer’s thesis blog – Jennifer Parker's micro-history of short form narrative et al. An interesting angle would be to look at what readers add to the narrative to make the story work. Do they elucidate? Do they create motivation? Do they re-create a micro-meaning? – (shortform twitter sms haiku #en3177 )

bookmarks for May 3rd, 2011 through May 4th, 2011

• Our Irresistible Fascination with All Things Circular Stephen Few – Critique of data charting – (visualization readlater )
• Views: A Truly New Genre – Inside Higher Ed – – (readlater )
• Mapping the Mixed Emotions following Osama bin Laden’s Death – – (visualization dot_plot )
• [toread] Masters of Media » Narrative Structures in Data Visualizations to Improve Storytelling – – (none)
• [toread] Narrative Structures in Data Visualizations to Improve Storytelling » OWNI.eu, News, Augmented – – (Visualization narrative )
• [toread] Narrative – – (visualization narrative )

bookmarks for February 12th, 2011

• TidBITS Opinion: Why The Daily Is So Yesterday – Adam's observations on Murdoch's wooden goose. It's about the news, Rupert, not the publication. The problem isn't the app; it's lack of the social. – (Publication newjournalism newspaper social_practices #en3177 )
• Gillmor Gang 2.12.11 (TCTV) – a breakneck consideration of email and twitter, adding social signals, and @mentions – (#en3177 twitter email social_practices social_signals @ )
• The Voynich Manuscript – – (codex alchemy botanical ms illustrated_ms )
• Many Eyes – IBM experiment in visualization and data exploration – (data infographics visualization )

bookmarks for February 5th, 2011

• Strata 2011: Communicating Data Clearly – OV of chart visualization principles created as a repurposing of a lecture tutorisl. – (visualization charts visual_rhetoric )
• Critical thinking: Why our students need it and resources for teaching it – less on critical thinking as a practice and more like 3 examples of skepticism. a starting point, but not an ending point. solid critical thinking would address her opening statement that the education system doesn't teach critical thinking. read it. – (fyw lib_ed fyc )

bookmarks for December 9th, 2010 through December 10th, 2010

• Picturing social order – – (visualization )
• From Indymedia to Wikileaks – OWNI.eu weighs in. “The battle over Wikileaks, and the journalistic questions that it raises, are genuinely new developments — but they’re new developments grounded in a few long term trends and a history stretching back nearly two decades.The impact of WikiLeaks on journalism is more an impact of degree than of kind; what’s happening isn’t entirely new, but it is happening on a greater scale than ever before. – (wikileaks journalism newjournalism )
• Twelve Theses on Wikileaks (with Patrice Riemens – [via if:books]. 12 entry points to the WikiLeaks discussion. From Amsterdam, it reads like an internal Pentagon report. “We do not think that taking a stand for or against WikiLeaks is what matters most. WikiLeaks is here to stay, until it either scuttles itself or is destroyed by opposing forces. Our point is rather to (try to) assess and ascertain what WikiLeaks can, could — and maybe even should — do, and to help formulate how “we” could relate to and interact with WikiLeaks.” – (wikileaks anarchy fyw a&e newjournalism citizen_journalism )
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error – (none)