This is a liveblog of a talk given at the Center for Civic Media by Mushon Zer-Aviv (@mushon). Any errors or omissions are the fault of the authors – Rahul Bhargava and Catherine D’Ignazio. Mushon is a design, educator and activist based in Tel-Aviv. He designed the maps for Waze, […]
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Note to the reader: This post will probably only be interesting for you if you’re a facilitator or educator. One of my driving goals in data literacy workshops I facilitate is to create space to play. I try to create that space by introducing fun materials, designing creative small group activities, introducing playful datasets, […]
What is the state of the “empiricism agenda” to understand “what works” in policy? And what is it that we don’t know? I’m here at the What Works Global Summit (WWGS) in London, where David Halpern and Peter John are discussing the role of randomized trials in society. The WWGS […]
This is a liveblog of a talk at the 2016 Data Literacy Conference, hosted by Fing. This was liveblogged by Rahul Bhargava and Catherine D’Ignazio. These are our best attempt to record what the speak was talking about – any accuracy errors are our fault. Samuel Huron begins by talking about how […]
What role does social media play in supporting collective action, and how do people organize to change social media systems themselves? I’m here in Oxford for the 2016 Internet Politics and Policy conference, hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute. Yesterday, I shared a paper on The Civic Labor of Online […]