The hardest part of being a PhD intern at the Social Media Collective last summer happened on weekday mornings. On those mornings, when I joined the optional Writing Power Hour, we would sit together at a long table overlooking the Charles River and write. For one or two hours, we […]
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We’re pleased to announce the launch of DataBasic.io – a suite of simple web-based tools and hands-on activities that help you get started learning to work with data. The tools are geared towards journalists, non-profits, activist groups and students. Rather than just building data tools to make a pretty charts, […]
MIT’s Center for Civic Media is developing a new platform to add contextual information to live streaming video and search across multiple live streaming services, allowing viewers to more deeply engage with live streams. The site is built on Meteor.js and we currently have an early beta version deployed at […]
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 […]
MOTIVATIONS During my first official meeting with my supervisor Ethan Zuckerman, he hands me a Safecast radiation sensor along with a Smart Citizen sensor. The imperative is to explore the integration of sensors into a process of collecting data for civic action. With the price of sensors continuing to […]