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Nice post by Matt Jones on data mining.
October 2010 Archives
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Syllabus and related resources (videos, readings) for an InfoViz class at Rutgers.
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Brilliant visualizations of data from the largest online dating site.
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Fascinating. I have mixed feelings about this, though. I wonder if people realize how much their online behavior can reveal about them...
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Somewhat more interesting visualizations of library use.
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Art or information? For my IL 2010 talk.
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Chris Jordan's work, inspiring second graders
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For discussion in class.
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For discussion in class.
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For discussion in class.
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Great travel tips!
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Trying to decide if I have time this week to create a WordPress dossier for my promotion materials. This is the theme that Kathleen Fitzpatrick used for hers, and it turned out beautifully.
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Fabulous essay on writing essays. Need to start assigning this to my students in the freshman intro to interactive media class.
It's been nearly six months since my last work-related trip--that's probably some kind of record for me over the past few years! But the travel plans are starting to fall into place again, and--perhaps due to the hiatus--I'm finding myself excited rather than exhausted by the prospect of my upcoming trips.
Where am I going? I'm starting with a west coast trip in a little over a week, to Monterey and San Francisco. I'm delighted to be doing a keynote again at Internet Librarian, after missing last year due to the Picture the Impossible game. My talk is going to be on a relatively new subject for me--information visualization (infoviz)--with (not unexpectedly) a social spin on the topic. Then, since I'll already be out west, I'm going to head up to San Francisco for a couple of days to see friends and "take some meetings" before flying back home.
I'll only be home for a short time, however, before I head out again--this time hopping across the pond to London and Spain. In London I'll be speaking at the AdAge Creativity and Technology conference, where my talk is entitled " 'Somewhat Neglected': The vast untapped market for social computing innovations". As soon as that talk is over, I'm headed down to Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, where I'll be talking about Picture the Impossible at CARVI 2010 (8th Congress on Virtual Reality Applications).
So, there will be more airport checkins, more travel photography, and quite likely more blogging in the weeks to come!
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Interesting tool for archiving websites that you cite. I use Zotero snapshots to preserve local copies of webpages that I'm citing, but I'm intrigued by the idea of a public preservation site. FAQ says that "in 2008 they plan to offer premium membership accounts" for institutions and copyright owners. but that dosn't seem to have happened.
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An oldie-but-goodie. Everyone should be required to read it.
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Interesting tool for embedded fonts.
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Got great reviews in TripAdvisor; 50€/night.
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This looks like a really good limoncello recipe. Will probably start making it over the weekend, so that it's ready to give as gifts for the holidays.
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Nice overview of IA by Dan Klyn
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Beautifully crafted slides and argument regarding the perils of poorly conceptualized "gamification".
