You are here. We see some representation of this every day—a red pin, a pulsating blue dot, a small graphic of an airplane. Without a point of reference on which to anchor it,...
11/19/2020
So you want to study technology, democracy, and social change? A guide to interdisciplinary PhD programs Oct 13, 2019·7 min read Maybe your community has been affected by...
11/14/2020
Data visualisations are a language we are accustomed to, a form of communication, which tell us a story: art with a function, as Alberto Cairo stated, “a plural technology (a...
11/14/2020
This post is inspired by this recent publication (note – I started and procrastinated on the post weeks ago, so I’ll edit this to “fairly recent”) publication from Andy Kirk....
11/11/2020
How data, bodies and experience entwine – and how we might make a world where instead of predicting our individual risk we understand the complexities of living together, in...
11/01/2020
It isn’t easy to understand just how big some of the really big numbers are. But there are works of data art and data visualisation that try to put big numbers into perspective...
10/22/2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) made headlines recently when people started reporting that Alexa was laughing unexpectedly. Those news reports led to the usual jokes about...
10/21/2020
Machine learning, artificial neural networks and social research Metrics details Abstract Machine learning (ML), and particularly algorithms based on artificial neural networks...
10/21/2020
I use one of those credit monitoring services that regularly emails me about my credit score: “Congratulations, your score has gone up!” “Uh oh, your score has gone...
09/15/2020
Jan 30, 2019 · 6 min read One moment you’re listening to one of your favourite podcasts , the next you’re interviewing one of the guests yourself. That’s basically how Rick and...
09/08/2020
Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier. I want you to feel more confident in your color choices. And if you have no sense for colors...
09/07/2020
The choices we make when we visualise data influence how people see, understand, and react to the underlying data. This session includes a series of slides to build your...
08/13/2020