3 new on-line collections

Thanks to LJ’s infoDOCKET : The New York City Department of Records Launches Database Containing More than 870,000 Digitized Items "…collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the photographs feature all manner of city oversight…

Earthworks Badges launches a development Blog

Earthworks Badges is our working group name for Digtial Watershe and Ohio State University. Our group also includes content specialists and advisors who are at other institutions such as the Arizona Science Center, Denison University, Indiana Universit…

Earthworks Badges launches a development Blog

Earthworks Badges is our working group name for Digtial Watershe and Ohio State University. Our group also includes content specialists and advisors who are at other institutions such as the Arizona Science Center, Denison University, Indiana Universit…

5/1 MITH Digital Dialogue: Carla Peterson and Seth Denbo, “From Print to Digital: The Black Gotham Digital Archive”

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5/1 MITH Digital Dialogue: Carla Peterson and Seth Denbo, “From Print to Digital: The Black Gotham Digital Archive”

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Visualizing Community: Design & Creating Queer Female Space in DC

This semester in Professor David Ribes’ Ethnography & Archival Research: A Grounded Theory Approach course I have been studying the way local factors specific to DC, such as professionalism, leadership, money, resumes, and spatial gentrification, i…

Visualizing Community: Design & Creating Queer Female Space in DC

This semester in Professor David Ribes’ Ethnography & Archival Research: A Grounded Theory Approach course I have been studying the way local factors specific to DC, such as professionalism, leadership, money, resumes, and spatial gentrification, i…

Color Forecast: What Colors are People Wearing in the Street Today?

Color Forecast [pimkiecolorforecast.com] shows what colors people are currently wearing in three European ‘fashion capitals’, which are Paris, Milan and Antwerp. Naturally, this viral campaign for European fashion brand Pimkie also includes according …

World Happiness Report makes statisticians unhappy

3d column chart of awesome

It feels oh so wrong posting about bad charts in a report about happiness around the world, but here you …

Learning data visualization

I listen to a lot of podcasts. They make my workouts much more enjoyable. For the most part though, I …

The AIA and Open Access: A response

The AIA and Open Access: A responseIt’s a cliché but this time both of us writing this post were surprised and then dismayed to read in Archaeology Magazine’s most recent “Letter from the President” that the AIA has “taken a stand against op…

altmetrics12: An ACM Web Science Conference 2012 Workshop > Evanston IL > 21 June 2011

About the Workshop

Increasing scholarly use of Web2.0 tools like CiteULike, Mendeley, Twitter, and blog-style article commenting presents an opportunity to track scholarly impact in novel ways. Metrics based on this diverse set of Web sources could…

Open Hardware comes to DC

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Representing the First 4,000,000 Decimals of Pi in a Single Image

The online visualization titled “3.1415926535897932384626…” [two-n.com] by design studio TWO-N represents the first 4,000,000 decimals of the number Pi within a single image.

Each unique digit of Pi corresponds to a specific color, and is rendered …

The Present and Future of the University: An Interview With David Theo Goldberg

In a recent interview, David Theo Goldberg (Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute - www.uchri.org) discussed the changing nature of the university, the role of public intellectuals, the pressing problems facin…