This is a live blog account from the Data For Equity: The Power of Data to Promote Justice event. Barbara Best, Executive Director, Center for Public Leadership, introduces the panel. The moderator is Yeshimabeit Milner, the Executive Director and Founder of Data for Black Lives which uses data science […]
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This is a draft piece for a larger project called The Visual Catalogue of Uncertainty in Data that I’m just beginning with Mushon Zer-Aviv that seeks to catalog the ways in which the data never, under any circumstances, speak for themselves. Gender data is often more complicated than it […]
Photo by Patsy Beaudoin. From the Boston Public Library’s description of the talk: The Leventhal Map Center and the Boston Map Society welcome Joni Seager, Professor and Chair at Bentley University to talk about her book “State of Women in the World Atlas.” In an age of data overload, […]
Seeing the whole world is a fantasy that Michel DeCerteau calls the “totalizing eye” and Donna Haraway calls “the God Trick”. This is the first image taken of the whole earth in 1967. From Wikipedia. While there is a lot of hype about data visualization, and a lot of new […]
This is a liveblog from the Data Transparency Lab conference at the MIT Media Lab which is about transparency in user data collected from networked digital devices such as computers, mobile phones and other networked objects. Things that are needed for making a difference in user data online. Jose Luis […]
Image by @arnicas for #OpenVisConf From the OpenVisConf website: Robert Kosara is Research Scientist at Tableau Research. Before he joined Tableau in 2012, he was a professor of computer science at UNC Charlotte. Robert has created visualization techniques like Parallel Sets and performed research into the perceptual and cognitive basics […]
From the OpenVisConf website: Jeffrey Heer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the Interactive Data Lab and conducts research on data visualization, human-computer interaction and social computing. The visualization tools developed by his lab (D3.js, Vega, Protovis, Prefuse) […]
Carl DiSalvo (@cdisalvo) an Associate Professor in the Digital Media Program in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech he established The Public Design Workshop, a design research studio that explores socially-engaged design practices and civic media. This talk is co-sponsored by the […]
I’m at the 2014 Computation + Journalism symposium at Columbia University. Here’s a quick intro to what we are talking about: “Data and computation drive our world, often without any kind of critical assessment or accountability. Journalism is adapting responsibly—finding and creating new kinds of stories that respond directly to […]
While personalization is useful in moderation, creators that employ excessive personalization might consider a warning message like the above. This blog post is part of my epic (only to me) quest to write a thesis about serendipity and online information discovery. Here I detail the strategies that creators are using […]
From the program: Revelations about the extent of US government surveillance of digital communications have changed the debate about internet governance, online privacy, and the role of the internet as a public sphere. In a post-Snowden era, how do we protect revelations from human rights activists? Of journalistic sources? What […]
Susan Crawford on stage at the 2014 Knight-Civic Media Conference Cities and citizens around the world are using data around the world to thicken democratic engagement. Susan Crawford will expand on themes from her new book, “The Responsive City,” co-authored with Stephen Goldsmith, and the heroism it describes—together with the […]